VTbks

“thumbprint portrait” by cheryl sorg

NANCY’S AVONTUREN [aka NANCY’S ADVENTURES] by (Amsterdam: Kleuter-Boekjes, ) Illustrated by Freddie Langeler (1897-1953). Cover design by Jan Wiegman

THE ART OF CARL FABERGE by A. Kenneth Snowman. (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1953). Art binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

Color frontispiece and 26 color plates, monochrome illustrations throughout. Contemporary green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the upper cover mounted with a mid-Victorian malachite-mounted gilt bronze plaque, with a central malachite boss raise on chased pierced foliage. Green moiré silk doublures, gilt edges, the spine lettered in gilt.

Copy of the Goods of Montpellier

France, c. 1810

Napoleonic era

This book illustrates the huge variety of intricate patterns printed in vivid colors on cotton textiles for fashion during the early 19th century. The book comes from Montpellier, a town on the southern coast of France that is not known today as a center of textile printing. Thus these samples indicate how much more widespread the textile industry was in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This book contains more than 2,300 small samples.

haven't posted new textile related stuff in a while but i've been learning how to design my own punch cards for use with a domestic knitting machine. this design is adapted from/inspired by a traditional icelandic weaving pattern to be more suitable for knit structure and representative of xanthoria spp. lichen found across iceland.

Ogawa Kazumasa, Hand-Coloured Photographs, 1896