#fabric samples

A few more pages from a printer’s sample book (USA, 1879), a small notebook with handwritten formulas for dyestuffs for printed textiles.

Made by Old Pacific Print Works.

Pattern Book of Textile Samples, British, 1790

Album with textile samples and fashion plates, compiled by Barbara Johnson, England, 1746-1823.

Album consisting of ninety-seven pages of paper with textile samples and fashion plates attached.

Victoria and Albert Museum

These fabric samples were compiled and mounted into four books by accomplished dye-master Robert A. Fisher, alongside the detailed recipes used to create the vibrant patterns. All created between 1848-1855, the colors remain bold and brilliant, having been protected for so long from the fading effects of light.

COLLECTION

There's also some Serse Luigietti in there, heavily obscured. And Mona Lisa and The Smiths. Did I say obscured? HEAVILY.

Be Dazzled ! Norman Hartnell

Sixty Years of Glamour and Fashion

By Michael Pick

Pointed Leaf Press, New York 2007, 268 pages, ISBN  978-0977787531

euro 48,50

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Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) was a unique, British designer. By the mid 1930s, his meteoric rise to fame had made London a center of style that closely rivaled Paris. While Hartnell clients included members of the English upper class and the best-known stage and film actresses, it was his royal patronage that assured him a place in history. Hartnell’s famous White Wardrobe, designed for Queen Elizabeth and photographed by Cecil Beaton, changed the image of royalty forever. The Queen’s extraordinary Coronation dress as well as the sublime wedding gown created for Princess Margaret remains iconic to this day. Decades of achievement were rewarded with a Knighthood in 1977, making Sir Norman Hartnell the first fashion designer to be so honored. In Be Dazzled! Norman Hartnell: Sixty Years of Glamour and Fashion, the only illustrated monograph on this couturier, royal enthusiasts and style connoisseurs can examine Hartnell’s never before published drawings, vintage photographs, fabric samples, and personal scrapbooks.

22/09/20

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