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The Textile Blog
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This blog concerns the history of interiors and interior furnishings over the last two centuries.
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Embroidery Design Work of Ella Margold-Weltmann

Illustration: Ella Margold-Weltmann. Embroidery design, 1910.Ella Margold-Weltmann was principally a textile designer. She was the wife of Emanuel Josef Margold who although categorised as an archite...

22 may 12 1 person likes this

How the Victorians Portrayed the Medieval World

 Illustration: Edward Burne-Jones. The Attainment tapestry design.One of the most popular style projections of the Victorians, particularly in Britain, was that of the medieval. Although the Got...

18 may 12

Franz Metzner and the Structure of Carpet Design

Illustration: Franz Metzner. Carpet design, c1906.The German sculptor Franz Metzner was a relatively important artist of his time and was particularly influential during the period that incorporated ...

15 may 12

Textile Design and the Copyright Law of 1842

Illustration: Benecke and Co. Calico print textile design, 1849.English, as opposed to British copyright laws of the nineteenth century, Ireland and Scotland were treated separately, were deeply flaw...

08 may 12

The Victorian Observation of Indian Decoration

Illustration: Decoration from an Indian lacquer workbox, seen at the Great Exhibition, 1851.British designers, and particularly those involved in the textile industry, had been either literally copyi...

30 apr 12

The Designer as a Cross-Discipline Artist

Illustration: Elaine Carstairs: Filigree circle vessel using a mixture of crochet, metal and sculptural perspective. It is interesting to note the number of consummate multi-disciplinarians that were...

27 apr 12 1 person likes this

A New Ebook: William Morris and the Pattern of Nature

A new ebook is launched today and it concerns the pattern work of William Morris. The book William Morris and the Pattern of Nature, deals with the designers passion for and intrinsic understanding o...

23 apr 12

Decorative Patterned Floors of Venice

Illustration: Church marble floor design from Venice.It must seem sometimes as if Venice is awash with a complexity of floor designs for both religious and secular buildings. There are a number of ex...

20 apr 12

Arabic Calligraphy as Decoration

Illustration: Silk brocade design, 13th or 14th century.Arabic script seems to lend itself perfectly to a decorative format, more so than perhaps other world scripts. It has been used very effectivel...

17 apr 12

The Textile Blogs Fourth Anniversary

Today is The Textile Blogs fourth anniversary and therefore I wanted to take the opportunity to stop for a moment and help explain where the blog is and where it originally came from. The site itself...

11 apr 12

Wallpaper Design Work in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Illustration: Wallpaper design produced by the Charles J. Gordon company, 1849.It is always interesting when looking at English wallpaper design during the mid-nineteenth century, to see not only the...

05 apr 12

Victorian Crocheted Purses and Bags

Illustration: French crochet bag patterns, 1855.Not everything concerned with textiles, whether hand or machine produced, is necessarily always grand, open and public, sometimes it can also apply to ...

02 apr 12 1 person likes this

Embroidered Robes of Thomas Becket

Illustration: Thomas Beckets embroidered apparel of the amice (detail), 1165.The ecclesiastical robes of the twelfth century Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket are kept within the precincts of S...

29 mar 12

The Creative Carpet Design Work of Patriz Huber

Illustration: Patriz Huber. Decorative carpet design, c1899.The German artist and designer Patriz Huber is perhaps not as well known today as some of his designer colleagues. Although being part of t...

26 mar 12 1 person likes this

The Principles of Textile Design by Owen Jones

Illustration: Owen Jones. Textile design, 1851.Although many critics wrote extensively on the merits of design reform during the early to mid-nineteenth century, particularly as regards surface patte...

23 mar 12

Decorative Endpapers of the Early Twentieth Century

Illustration: Richard Grimm. Decorative endpaper design, 1904.Although this article deals with decorative endpapers of the early twentieth century, it might be wise to describe firstly what an endpap...

19 mar 12

Medieval Stained Glass Pattern Work

Illustration: Stained glass window pattern from Lincoln Cathedral.It is sometimes tempting to think that all ecclesiastical stained glass design work tells a figurative story. However, a considerable...

16 mar 12

The Crocheted Lace DOyley

 Illustration: Matilda Marian Pullan. Crocheted doyley pattern, 1856.The humble doyley, doily, or indeed doilie, doyley, or doilie, is often overlooked as nothing more than a Victorian affectati...

16 mar 12

The Continuing Relevance of William Morris

Illustration: William Morris. Honeysuckle printed textile design, 1876.There are many that love, hate and are indifferent to the work and career of William Morris. However, to still be arousing passi...

13 mar 12

A Celebration of Pugins 200th Anniversary

 Illustration: A W N Pugin. Cross design for a frontal or vestment, 1844.Today is Augustus Welby Northmore Pugins birthday. It is also exactly two hundred years since his birth and in way of cel...

01 mar 12

Margarete von Brauchitsch a Modernist Designer

Illustration: Margarete von Brauchitsch. Embroidery design work in a contemporary interior setting, c1905.Margarete von Brauchitsch is perhaps not the best known of early twentieth century artists an...

28 feb 12

The 1853 Dublin Exhibition of Art-Industry

Illustration: Central Hall of the Dublin Exhibition, 1853.With the publicity surrounding the ground-breaking Great Exhibition held in Hyde Park, London in 1851, publicity that has made it as enduring...

23 feb 12

Informed Criticism and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Carpet Industry

Illustration: A. Lapworth and Co. Carpet design, 1851.The sophistication and level of technique and finish that was produced in carpet and rug design in mid-nineteenth century Britain is often undere...

20 feb 12

Swedish Landscape in Fine Art and Tapestry

Illustration: Helmer Jonas Osslund. Varafton Bakom Kiruna.Swedish tapestry design of the early twentieth century was known at the time as probably some of the best woven artwork being produced in Eur...

14 feb 12

Wallpaper Design Work of Paul Burck

Illustration: Paul Burck. Wallpaper design, c1901.The German artist and designer Paul Burck produced work in a whole range of disciplines from fine art through to illustration, graphics, wallpaper, g...

09 feb 12

Graphic Design Work of Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens

Illustration: Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens. Esther, c1910.Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens was a German graphic designer and typographer who produced a particularly strong series of graphic pieces during the...

06 feb 12

The Floral in Textile Surface Pattern Work

Illustration: Textile design, 1851.To understand the history of surface pattern in textile design is to understand that each pattern will have a personal, cultural and regional dimension as well as t...

02 feb 12

Viennese Art Nouveau Lace

Illustration: Franziska Hofmanninger. Lace design, c1899.Although lace work is often thought to be traditionally bound up with distinctive regions of Europe, it has also had a relatively recent histo...

30 jan 12

The Role of Embroidered Alphabets

Illustration: Embroidered alphabet, 1869.Lettering and text have been used for centuries in the craft of embroidery. Sometimes it has been used in a relatively minor way, while at other times it has ...

25 jan 12

The Great Exhibition and its Educational Legacy

Illustration: Arcade from the oak screen work of stalls in the Choir at Winchester Cathedral.The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the first international trade exhibition of its kind, certainly as far as...

24 jan 12

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