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Overhangs made of what were originally three valances belonging to the complete set. Embroidered with flowering trees, birds, and, in the center, a medallion showing a landscape with a large flowering tree surrounded by deer.
A Collector’s Eye
Author: Donna Ghelerter In celebration of the third annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September. A non-profit professional organization of scholars, educators, and artists in the field of textiles, TSA provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination...
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2 minutes
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Susan Brown
Date
September 5, 2018
Image features a fabric printed with four vignettes with groups of women in Norman costume with large headdresses. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Costumes Normands: Engraved sources for early nineteenth-century French printed cottons
Author: Michele Majer In celebration of the third annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September. A non-profit professional organization of scholars, educators, and artists in the field of textiles, TSA provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination...
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4 minutes
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Susan Brown
Date
September 4, 2018
Image features a robe of gold metallic cloth with foundation fabric of terra-cotta silk. Edges trimmed with knitted silk in red, blue, yellow, black and white. Lined with silk and cotton ikat fabric in red, white and yellow. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Wearing Wealth
Author: Sumru Belger Krody In celebration of the third annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September. A non-profit professional organization of scholars, educators, and artists in the field of textiles, TSA provides an international forum for the exchange and...
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3 minutes
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
September 3, 2018
Woman's kimono of white satin with woven design of tiny lozenges, tortoises and phoenixes. Embroidered with silk threads in red, gold and green with cherry blossoms, pine branches, bamboo, phoenix and butterflies. Lined with red silk.
Winter’s Friends
Author: Janine LeBlanc In celebration of the third annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September. A non-profit professional organization of scholars, educators, and artists in the field of textiles, TSA provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination...
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3 minutes
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Susan Brown
Date
September 2, 2018
Image features a Length of woven textile in which jagged columns of blue/black alternate with areas in which a brushstroke-like pattern appears on a subtly graded ground of red, pink, yellow, and light blue. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Palpable Color
Author: Janice Lessman-Moss In celebration of the third annual New York Textile Month, members of the Textile Society of America will author Object of the Day for the month of September. A non-profit professional organization of scholars, educators, and artists in the field of textiles, TSA provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination...
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4 minutes
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
September 1, 2018
Display of hand-painted papers, ink bottles, and brushes
Careers in Color: Peclers Paris
As research for the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color (May 11, 2018–January 13, 2019), the curators interviewed color specialists working in diverse industries and fields, from fashion forecasting to early childhood education. For our Careers in Color blog series, we asked these specialists to tell us about their work and how their...
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4 minutes
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Susan Brown
Date
August 23, 2018
Image features muslin embroidered with a floral motif in gold threads and blue-green beetle wing "sequins." Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Wearing Wings
From the archives, an Object of the Day post on an example of iridescent design from the collection.
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1 minute
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
August 1, 2018
Image features: Black cotton taffeta with a single vertical column of white embroidery down the center. The 37 three-dimensional embroidered motifs include butterflies, birds, flowers, and the word PEACE. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Forest Parade
Akira Minagawa opened his first minä perhonen fashion boutique in Tokyo’s Shirokanedai district in 2000, and began showing his collections in Paris in 2004. Forest Parade, introduced as part of the Spring/Summer 2005 collection, has become an iconic design for the brand. “Perhonen” means butterfly in Finnish, and this design includes butterflies, birds, flowers, branches,...
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1 minute
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
July 22, 2018
Image features: Child's sleeping mat composed of several layers of indigo dyed cotton fabrics, patched and heavily stitched. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Pieced and Patched
Today, indigo-dyed cotton cloth and clothing are emblematic of Japanese folk traditions. But cotton is not indigenous to Japan, and for most of Japan’s history, rural clothing was made from available plant fibers: paper mulberry, ramie, nettle, hemp, and wisteria. Cotton, which was originally introduced through Korea and China, was first cultivated in the warmer,...
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2 minutes
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
July 19, 2018