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This is traditional job located in benjamrah, small village near buddia highway in Bahrain (Middle East). This man ( Mohammed) inherited this job from his father & triad to teach it to his sons. In the past there was more than 50 factory's but now, there's only this factory behind Benijamrah cemetery.
hand knitting dipped in hand made paper and steamed marbles stained with ink, also print from wallpaper made from hand made paper.
Indonesian scarf. Hand-woven, ikat, natural indigo dyed, unfortunately don't remember what's the red dye called. I bought it from a lady who did a program on indonesian textiles in our organization, we had a chance to buy some too.
I found this advertisement for Chelsea Textiles in Architectural Digest and I found their aesthetic to be strikingly similar to those that we studied by William Morris. They are very stylized versions of nature, simple and geometric. This shows how contemporary design is influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement.
Text by guido montegrandi, textile (mixed media, hand dyed and rusted cotton, plastic net, tulle, hand embroidery, machine stitching)
Ghana 2009. Cotton and lurex.
I went to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery exhibition of African cloth today and this caught my eye.
Barack Obama visited Ghana in 2009 and many textiles were produced bearing his image. This was one.
Photgraphed through glass.
Textile called "Persons Kryddskåp" ("Person's Spice Cabinet"), designed in 1955 for the textile company Almedahls.
Sampe has been called "Sweden's Textile Queen" for her influential leadership. After studying in Stockholm and London she began working at NK in Stockholm in 1935. She became head of the design department and invited designers such as Arne Jacobsen, Viola Gråsten and Stig Lindberg to collaborate.
From the exhibition "En värld av mönster" ("A world of patterns") at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet.
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textile brooche from my last collection "ammìrati, unconventional textile jewels"
(time flies indeed, my friends, but I'm here again...;o)....)
Pre Columbian textile fragment 3x7, from the estate of Lucy Little. Ms. Little served with the foreign service at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1972.
Block layout for a textile based print. I have been looking at Bauhaus textile artists, especially Anni Albers and Gunta Stolzl, but I am also thinking back to my grandmother's quilts and the prints I have made of them.
Experiments from natural forms, top left in a latex mold of a pineapple used to make a plaster cast, I also stitched into the latex and let thread dry into it. Bottom left is a watercolour and fineliner drawing of an onion. on the right is a negative print on to acetate melted with a heat gun and stitched into.
Mr. Alex Salmond MSP, Scotland's First Minister signs a photograph after opening a new textile training centre at Johnstons of Elgin in Hawick, his third from last public engagement before standing down as Scotland's First Minister.