Textile Time Travels: Antique Fabrics 1876 swatch books
The original antique quilt top was made with a large assortment of different fabrics you would expect in a top of this age -- indigos, homespuns, shirtings, madders, double pinks and mourning prints. The individual 4 squares were wonderful, but the mix of all the colors and patterns didn't really appeal to me, and it was crudely stitched. If you read my blog, you know that I almost always take these tops apart for the fabric. My favorite fabrics are these wild abstract floral designs, some with kind of lurid color schemes. [gallery link=file columns=2 size=medium ids=11820,11833,11817,11819,11814,11813,11818,11816,11832,11815]
My friend, Patty at Petalier, pointed out that the first group of neon type antique prints I posted last week is from the 1890s. It's always a bit risky purchasing these very old blocks and tops because the fabric can be in poor condition without showing any obvious signs of damage. To test the fabric, I have to grab the middle of each piece with both hands and pull as hard as I can in one direction, and then the other. If it tears, I have to throw it away, and sometimes that makes me very sad. Amazingly, I haven't found any rotten fabric pieces in this scrappy top, even though it's over 100 years old. That makes me very happy. [gallery link=file columns=2 size=medium ids=12132,12131,12130,12129,12128,12127,12126,12125,12123,12137 orderby=title]
Design of floral forms enclosing scene showing a bridge across river with boats and buildings at left. Background is stippled (picotage).
Woman's Dress and Petticoat (Robe à la française), Unknown, France, 1775-1785, Costumes, Cotton plain weave, block printed and glazed.
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ca. 1840, Baumwolle
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Purples in quilts can sometimes be problematic, spotting as in the block above. We see shades of purple in some of the earlies...
Textile Sample Book | French, Paris | The Met
Bed cover of quilted and printed cotton and backed in linen, England, ca. 1820-40
No. 174: Woman's garment
Stylized carnations and other flowers in shades of red and blue with thin meandering stems on a bright yellow ground.
Fortuny e Caramba In the last of my Fortuny series I bring you my favorite, his silk velvet. Fortuny grew up around textiles as bot...
Circa 1920 Mariano Fortuny dark brick colored stenciled cotton panel in a Renaissance style design (Glicine) with a mottled grey background. 2 panels joined wi…
During the early fifteenth century, European velvet design was largely characterized by the use of voided patterns formed where the pile was absent. In the second half of the century, technical innovations led to the production of increasingly complex velvets in which the richness of design and texture were achieved through the use of different heights of cut pile and of supplementary metal threads
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