Month: September 2018

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Surtout de Table: Sustenance of Political Power
From Cooper Hewitt's collection handbook, Making Design, the history of the surtout de table.
Read Time
5 minutes
Posted By
Sarah D. Coffin
Date
September 5, 2018
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...
Read Time
2 minutes
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
September 5, 2018
Installation view of "Face Values," organized by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for the 2018 London Design Biennale. Photo David Levene.
COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM RECEIVES LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2018 EMOTIONAL STATES MEDAL
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum was awarded the London Design Biennale 2018 Emotional States Medal for the most inspiring interpretation of the 2018 theme, supported by Panasonic. This medal has been selected by the Biennale’s International Jury, a group of 14 world-leading design experts and influencers. “We are honored to receive this recognition from London...
Posted By
Laurie Bohlk
Date
September 4, 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...
Read Time
4 minutes
Posted By
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...
Read Time
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...
Read Time
3 minutes
Posted By
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...
Read Time
4 minutes
Posted By
Susan Brown
Date
September 1, 2018