Prelle's Folies
photo St TylConcurrent with the exhibit Folie Textile at the Palais de Compiegne and right on the Place des Victoires in Paris, The Manufacture Prelle presents a shimmering, multicolored tribute to...
View ArticleVincent Darré Print Collection for Frey
photo © Claire IsraëlI like a surreal touch here and there, it keeps us on our toes, so the universe of Vincent Darré has always tickled my fancy. He recently gave his particular stamp to the smallest...
View ArticleLight as air
photo Lelièvre Kenzo isn't alone to have its textile head in the clouds lately. A glance outside was always good for inspiration and now this cloth makes the perfect reverie for awindow with or without...
View ArticleJean-Paul Gaultier: moods for Maison
all photos from LelièvreVagabondI always think of the style Jean-Paul Gaultier as a gust of good humor playing at the masterful cuts and seams of his Couture collections. The designer never fails to...
View ArticleHalloween glamour old and new
photo Christie'sHélène Rochas 1946 bat mask at the la Nuit du Pré-Catelan.image Mme FigaroRoberto Cavalli owl coatimage Bohemian ChicFeline scarf Charlotte Sparrephoto Vogue collection Musée Galliéra,...
View ArticleHalloween ambiance
Heaven indigo resist fabric from Storie della passione Genoa, Italy 17th centuryDevaux-Bachelard tree design 1889 Cape woven from authentic spider silk 2011by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godleyclose...
View ArticleCovered in textiles
If you are cuckoo about textiles and can imagine them in unexpected places, this new development may interest you.Rezina has come up with a new way to use textiles on every surface - tables, walls,...
View ArticleThat spider cloth
Because I mentioned it only briefly in my post Halloween Ambiance, I'm coming back to this exquisite spider silk fabric presented last year at the Victoria and Albert for those of you who are...
View ArticleLa Reine des Fleurs: from bedroom to ballroom and onward
photo St TylLa Reine des Fleurs woven document from 1895 Tassinari et Chatel.There is something classic and modern about the unusual design disposition of thisbeautiful brocade on a ground of...
View ArticleLa Verdure
Martine Aballéa Le jour et la nuitMan has always wished to tame nature, to bring it inside. John Hopper of The Textile Blog believes it to be our greatest inspiration and source of creativity. Though...
View ArticleFrench Trotters: real Parisian jeans
La beauté de la main et la machine--The beauty of man and the machine.crafted in Paris
View ArticleFestive Thanks
photo: St TylMuseum of Decorative Arts PragueFragment of cloth with figurative pattern 2nd half 17th century cotton direct indigo printingRhinelandpurchased from Joseph Krauth Frankfurt 1886
View ArticleVarious verdures
It must be all the gardens I've been visiting lately with my sister; I have green nature on my mind. In these last months of blog absence, I've been here and about finding - among other things -...
View ArticleTrompe l'oeil Ribbon
On the exhibit radar: Julien Faure, Créateur de rubans depuis 1864 at the Musée de l'Art et de l'Industrie St Etienne. 150 years of weaving wonders in tiny widths! And the museum has the largest and...
View ArticleUnderpinnings: Medieval Bras
© Beatrix Nutz / INSTITUT FÜR ARCHAOLOGIEN, UNIVERSITAT INNSBRUCK / EPA/MAXPPP"Paul Poiret," I would have said without hesitation in answer to the question, "who invented the first modern-day bra?" But...
View Article100 years of textiles at Lelièvre
photo: LelièvreThe design department at Lelièvre has devised a knock-out tribute to the company's 100 years of designing and manufacturing beautiful fabric. photo: LelièvreWhat you find before you is...
View ArticleSunny side
photo katarina jebbscarf Hermèsphoto source: pinterestTime for a break. I'm off for some travel and sun.Have a very nice month of August!
View ArticleTextile in a starring role
photo: Pablo Zuloagafrom an article on Paco Carvajal's restored house in CastilleDon't we all need a fabric-covered room? I found a good reminder of it in the cover of the September issue of The World...
View ArticleAnother dimension for textile patterns: Barrisol
photo: copyright Barrisol NormaluBarrisol is most known for manufacturing classic to spectacular stretch ceilings, but this innovative company's foray into decorative wall and ceiling materials...
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