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The Textile Blog
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This blog concerns the history of interiors and interior furnishings from 1840 to 1980. It includes information on a wide range of designers, manufacturers and retailers.
- Added on: May 17th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: John Hopper
- Listed in: Art History Artists
- Tags: art design craft interior textiles arts & crafts
Recent Posts
The Attu Basketry of the Aleutian Islands
Types of Attu and Atka basketry workThe Aleutian Islands are the long string of islands that travel in an arc along the bottom of the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia. There are a number of communities throughout the archipelago that have been pr...
Later Northern Russian Embroidery
Although the skill of embroidery is often thought to be a craft tradition that is firmly ensconced in that of the past rather than the present or future, embroiderers themselves have always been aware of and used contemporary themes within their work...
Tapestry as Progressive Modernism
Hedwig Jungnick tapestry design 1921This early Bauhaus tapestry design by Hedwig Jungnick shows us that there was, at least at the start of the school, a fairly open range of styles and directions that could be taken by artists and designers. Later i...
An 1850 Carpet Design
This illustration, as the title of the article suggests, shows a carpet design produced in about 1850. The design is in fact French in origin though could well have been produced in various parts of Europe including Britain which, during the first ha...
Textiles of the Inca
The Inca might well have been the last indigenous culture to rule Peru before the Spanish Conquest, and they may also be seen by some as the final stage in the accumulation of the different and multi-layered cultures that have made their home in Peru...
Owen Jones and Celtic Ornament
Celtic Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856In Owen Jones chapter concerning Celtic Ornament in his The Grammar of Ornament, he dealt mainly with the fairly narrow and recent history of Celtic Christian decoration, rather than the muc...
