#TextileTuesday

2025-06-10

#FashionHistory #HistoricFashion #TextileTuesday A piece from the 1780s on display at the National Costume Museum of Lisbon, that looks like it came from Hamilton on Broadway. #museum #Photography 📾 #WestCoastKin

A gold gold Georgian era coat with matching pants. Photo by Robert Emond
Eva the sewing historianEvathesewinghistorian
2025-06-04


Yesterday I made wreath from brass wire, wool roving, cotton yarn (crocheted around the wire and wool), filled wool fabric for leaves, ribbons and silk and cotton fabric for flowers.

A white middle aged woman in an orange dress is wearing a wreath made from various textiles. It is covered in bright green birch type leaves, and fabric flowers in blue, red, and white. It has ribbons hanging from it in the backA wreath made from various textiles is lying on an embroidered cushion. It is covered in bright green birch type leaves, and has ribbons hanging from it. Red shiny ribbons, green cotton tape, and a jaquard ribbon with red and white flowers, and green leaves, on a black background.
2025-06-04

A fun find for #TextileTuesday : so many cool animal friends in one work! 😍
Martha Mood (USA, 1908-1972)
First Families of Texas, 1962
Appliqué with beads
67 1/4 x 33in (170.8 x 83.8cm)
McNay Art Museum 1982.51 collection.mcnayart.org/object
#WomenArtists

long vertical textile, appliqué with beads, depicting numerous wild animals native to Texas together in a composite native landscape, including owls, turkey vultures, quail, ground doves, roadrunners, rabbits, skunks, armadillo, opossum, raccoon, tortoise, and a pair of either lizards or salamanders (chonky orange bodies that vaguely resemble gila monsters, which are not native to Texas; also spotted, so possibly meant to be central newt efts?) artist name and date stitched in bottom left predominant color palette of brown earth tones (animals with stylized but correct colorations)
2025-05-14

#TurtleTuesday + #TextileTuesday :
#Turtle , 1937-8
Federal Art Project (WPA), Milwaukee, WI, USA
Color woodcut on cotton fabric‹sheet: 45.09 × 41.91 cm (17 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
NGA DC 2015.143.1518.6: nga.gov/artworks/193887-turtle

color woodcut on cotton fabric square, turtle figure in central roundel surrounded by four crustaceans with large outstretched claws (one in each corner with claws framing circle), with additional outer square border  color palette: yellow-brown, blue-green, coral, black, white
2025-04-09

More #TextileTuesday:
“Cotton textile painted with a flounder-like #fish.
Chancay style, Peru.”
[Chancay culture: c.1000-1470CE]
On display at @ AMNH NYC

photo of the textile on display at museum, with label beneath (transcribed in post - no object # given) textile is light brown, folded into a rectangle with fish design centered; fish is darker brown
2025-04-09

#TextileTuesday:
“Border fragment of wool with a continuous band of #hummingbirds and fringelike appendages representing beans. Early Nasca [Nazca, Peru, c.1-450 CE]. #Pollination of bean plants by birds may be suggested here.“
On display at American Museum of Natural History [41.2/6321]
#BirdsInArt #AndeanArt #IndigenousArt

photo of the textile border fragment on display at museum, shown partially unrolled, with display label below: “Border fragment of wool with a continuous band of hummingbirds and fringelike appendages representing beans. Early Nasca. Pollination of bean plants by birds may be suggested here. Border was formed using a needle-knit stemstitch. 41.2/6321 Gift of Claire Zeisler”closeup #1 showing two multicolored hummingbirds on opposite sides of a yellow flower with fringed bordercloseup #2 ashowing two multicolored hummingbirds on opposite sides of a blue flower with fringed border
2025-01-29

#TextileTuesday :
Textile, California Quail
Designed by Tony Sharrar, Manufactured by Eric Hand Prints, USA, 1952
Cotton, screen printed on plain weave; H 102.5 x W 122 cm (40 3/8 x 48 1/16 in.)
Cooper Hewitt 1953-89-1 collection.cooperhewitt.org/ob
#BirdsInArt

cotton textile piece, sand colored base with repeating rows of brown and turquoise California Quail (8 per row, 4 rows on this piece) with scattered dots of the same colors resembling seeds/grain
2025-01-08

#TextileTuesday :
Lydia Bush-Brown (American, 1887–1984)
Hawaiian #Fishes, c. 1917
Silk hanging, H x W: 70 x 99 cm (27 9/16 x 39 in.)
Cooper Hewitt 1985-2-1
collection.cooperhewitt.org/ob
#WomenArtists

Lydia Bush Brown is best known for these "silk murals,"  or silk batik wall hangings. The medium is silk and its technique is wax-resist patterning (batik) on silk twill, embroidered.
Design: underwater scene of a school of tropical fishes swimming in a curving pattern past tall branches of corals and a seabed of sea urchins and sea stars.
Color palette: dark khaki, olive green, dim grey, eggplant (plus red eyes on the fish)
2024-08-21

#TextileTuesday :
Textile Fragment with #Unicorn , #Deer , #Centaur , and #Lion
Made in Scandinavia (possibly Sweden), c.1500
Wool intarsia & applique with gilt leather & linen embroidery
52 3/4 × 52 3/8 in. (134 × 133 cm)
The Met Cloisters 2011.430: metmuseum.org/art/collection/s

official museum photo of the textile on white background, square fragment with four inner quadrants (one for each animal) with text running along outer border, faded turquoise / vermillion / yellow / tan / green / black colors  “This textile features a combination of real and imaginary creatures. The inscription, only partially legible and apparently mixing Latin and Italian, invokes the name of Christ and the Church, indicating the cloth’s original use in a religious context.”
2024-07-30

#TextileTuesday #TapestryTuesday:
MÀrta MÄÄs-Fjetterström (Sweden, 1873-1941)
Tapestry, c.1915
Handwoven with linen yarn in warp & wool yarn in weft
H 235 cm x W 123 cm
Nasjonalmuseet OK-1995-0066: nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collectio
#WomenArtists

tapestry, picture weaving in long vertical format, depiction of a deer weaving its way through tall trees in a forest, with ornamental border
2024-07-23

#TextileTuesday:
Textile with Animals, Birds, and Flowers
Eastern Central Asia, late 12th–14th century
Silk embroidery on plain-weave silk
14 5/8 x 14 7/8 in. (37.1 x 37.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1988.296: metmuseum.org/art/collection/s

"This textile demonstrates the longevity of motifs in eastern Central Asia. The placement of animals—a spotted horse, a rabbit, and two deer (or antelope)—at its cardinal points is a compositional device that began to appear in the region during the Han dynasty. The birds on the piece, especially the parrot, entered the Central Asian repertoire during a second period of strong Chinese influence, the Tang dynasty. The floral background's central motif of lotus blossoms, a lotus leaf, and a trefoil leaf was seen in Central Asia and North China but became widespread during the Yuan dynasty."
2024-07-10

For #TextileTuesday + #CowAppreciationDay 🐼🐄:
Pichhwai for the Festival of #Cows [Gopashtami]
India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?), late 18th c.
Painted & printed gold & silver leaf & opaque watercolor on indigo-dyed cotton
97 5/8 x 103 1/8 in. (248 x 262 cm)
Met 2003.177: metmuseum.org/art/collection/s
#IndianArt #SouthAsianArt #HinduArt

official museum photo of the pichhwai, full front view on grey background

"Large painted cloths (pichhwais) were made to hang behind the main image in a temple. This textile was produced for the Festival of Cows (Gopashtami), which occurs in the late autumn to celebrate Krishna’s elevation from a herder of calves to a cowherd. Note the range of cows and frolicking calves that populate the flower-strewn field. The indigo ground and extensive use of gold and silver are typical of pichhwais that were made for a community of Sri Nathji devotees who moved to the Deccan during this period."closeup of the textile design showing the ornamental border and primary design of a herder surrounded by gold and silver cows
2024-07-09

For #TextileTuesday, check out all the cool animals on this wrapper!
Man’s Wrapper (Akunitan)
Akan, Ghana, 20th c. (before 1987)
Wool, 211.7 × 342.2 cm (83 3/8 × 134 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago 1986.1045: artic.edu/artworks/65193/man-s
#AfricanArt

black wrap with 4x5 grid of embroidered squares in red/yellow/green/white/black, each with a different emblem, including animals including mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects
wool; 2:2 broken twill weave; fulled; embroidered with rayon in chain stitches; two lengths joined
2024-04-23

#TextileTuesday / #TapestryTuesday :
FĂŒnf Schwane, 1897
Designed by: Otto Eckmann (German, 1865–1902)
Woven by: The Kunstwebschule Scherrebek (German)
Woven wool & cotton, 241.3 x 107.3 cm (95 x 42 1/4 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1991.440: collections.mfa.org/objects/12
#ArtNouveau #Jugendstil

"Funf Schwane is a notable example of German Art Nouveau, or Jugendstil, tapestry art inspired by Japanese ukiyoe prints. The long, narrow composition depicting a group of five swans on a meandering brook set within an idyllic forest, is representative of the more poetic naturalism of this style. Decorative elements woven in top and bottom to suggest borders. fringed sides."
2024-03-19

#TwoForTuesday + #TextileTuesday :
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston display
1 Gift cover (fukusa)
Japan, Meiji era, late 19th - early 20th c.
Silk satin embroidered w/silk & metallic threads
2 Oscar de la Renta (American, b. Dominican Republic, 1932-2014)
Woman's ensemble in 3 parts, 1980s
#BirdsInArt

photo of a window display at MFA Boston featuring two works shown together: Japanese fukusa (gift cover) and Oscar de la Renta ensemble (jacket, dress, scarf)closeup of 1st work: Japanese Fukusa with embroidered green parrot designcloseup of the large parrot (scarlet macaw) appliquĂ© on shoulder of Oscar de la Renta blue jacket from ensemble“For several centuries, silk covers or fukusa were draped over gifts to be presented on lacquer trays during weddings and other special ceremonies. The embroidered image of a parrot on a perch with feeder suspended by tasseled red cords on this fukusa was appropriate for an art form known for its depiction of the natural world. Lightly padded and backed with red crepe fabric brought to the front to frame the central image, it was designed to fall softly over a gift beneath with its gilt tassels slightly weighting each corner.”  “Born Óscar ArĂ­stides Renta Fiallo in Santo Domingo, de la Renta was a renowned American couturier and ready-to-wear designer. Trained by the great Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972), he rose to international acclaim in the 1960s and dressed numerous American first ladies, from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama. From power suits to couture gowns, de la Renta often used a variety of birds in his designs, as an intricate embroidery, a romantic textile design, or an oversized applique. This ensemble was designed for the boldest of women and speaks to his passion for vibrant colors inspired by Spanish and Caribbean cultures and landscapes.”
2024-03-12

I might be a bit hit & miss on here atm as I had my second hip replacement last week. Doing OK though so in celebration of nearly a week post op here is a decent picture of my latest piece, Last of the Light Edale #PeakDistrict #Edale #TextileTuesday #FineArtInStitch #TextileArt #Art #embroidery
#stitching #embroideryart #fineart #ContemporaryArt #needlework
@fibrearts
@textilearts
@embroidery
#MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #ArtMatters #FediArt #artist
#ArtOfTheDay #AYearForArt
#TextileArtist

Stitched artwork depicting a dark moorland hillside with a tumble down dry stone wall leading away from the eye. The sun has just set and there is a bright line of sunshine on the horizon beneath grey/purple clouds
Laura J. Wilkinsonljw@qoto.org
2024-01-28

Finished making a skulls & roses 💀 đŸ„€ version of this dress pattern - good instructions and video tutorial

ikatee.fr/products/patron-de-c

#TextileTuesday #SilentSunday

2023-12-20

#TextileTuesday: 18th c. French bed hanging - lots of cool fantastical #birds & #dragons but check out the neat trio of #rhino #elephant & #camel in the center! Also a bonus cameleopard (#giraffe ).
On display at “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art

photo of textile hanging on wall in display at museum:  Unidentified French Embroiderer(s) Bed Hanging 18th century Linen ground, wool and silk embroidery threads Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Judge Irwin Untermyer, 1952.148bcloseup of rhino (top left), elephant (top right), camel (bottom center) (arranged in a triangular composition)Closeup of the cameleopard (misinterpreted giraffe with short legs and two long horns)

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