Author: Wolfgang Fritz VolbachPublisher:
ISBN: 9780600012429
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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Early Decorative Textiles
Author: Wolfgang Fritz VolbachPublisher:
ISBN: 9780600012429
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
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376 Decorative Allover Patterns from Historic Tilework and Textiles
Author: Charles CahierPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155498
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The increased use of quality designs in 19th-century manufactured goods created a steady demand during that period for collections of decorative patterns. This volume reproduces one such collection ― an extremely rare and valuable portfolio of 376 motifs assembled more than a century ago by two French Jesuit scholars. Relying on historical wall and floor tiles, textile patterns, tapestries, wall hangings, and other designs originating in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later European and Islamic cultures, Charles Cahier (1807–1882) and Arthur Martin (1802–1856) produced a work of true artistic distinction. Included are a wealth of splendid floral, animal, bird, and geometric patterns, carefully researched and meticulously redrawn for use in a myriad of graphic and artistic projects. Many of the motifs are accompanied by complementary border designs, an often essential accessory. This edition faithfully reproduces the edition published in 1868, titled Suite aux mélanges d'archéologie. It represents an invaluable copyright-free resource embodying the finest designs from historic sources, ready for use by artists, illustrators, craftspeople, and designers working with textiles, wallpapers, interior decoration, and other projects.
African Textiles and Decorative Arts
Author: Roy SieberDecorative Textiles from Arab & Islamic Cultures
Author: Jennifer Mary WeardenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907372957
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"The exceptional collection published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent linked by a shared vocabulary of ornament - evidence of the international nature of Islamic design. Materials represented are silk - the most prestigious of fibres, requiring highly respected weavers - wool, cotton and linen. Decoration is based on variations of weave and colour and embellishment through embroidery, printing and appliqué and illustrates the work of both professional and domestic workers. The strengths of the collection are concentrated in the textile production of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which, thanks to the basically conservative nature of textile technique and design, preserve and continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world. They are important in an assessment of Islamic textiles both for their quality and as illustrations of survival and adaptation in a major industry. Their heritage reaches back well over a thousand years, even though their very high perishability means that for the earlier part of the tradition our knowledge is reliant very largely on written sources. These, however, attest to the superb quality and quantity of textiles at the courts of the period."--From Amazon.com.
Decorative Textiles
Author: George Leland HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Decorative Textiles; An Illustrated Book on Coverings for Furniture, Walls and Floors, Including Damasks, Brocades and Velvets, Tapestries, Laces, Emb
Author: G.L. HunterPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876440655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Textile Surface Decoration
Author: Margo SingerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812220001
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Arts educator Margo Singer provides a thorough understanding of the unique properties of silk and velvet as well as the history and traditions of decorating these textiles. She then shows how to produce these traditional decorative effects using household materials and widely available craft supplies.
Modern Block Printed Textiles
Author: Alan PowersPublisher: Walker Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
An overview of one of the oldest known methods of textile printing, from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
The Fabric of Civilization
Author: Virginia PostrelPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541617614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.
The New Textiles
Author: Chloë ColchesterPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description