#colors in textiles

[othmeralia]

Italian Dyer's Notebook

Autograph manuscript, circa 1856-1866

This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866, suggesting that the notebook was used and added to over a period of time. The work includes more than 500 numbered and itemized recipes for dyes. Recipes are illustrated with more than 800 wool and fabric samples adhered to the pages. The samples range in colors from shades of brown to vivid fuchsia, turquoise, and mustard. The samples include fabrics of wool, felt, and cotton, as well as raw wool and coils of yarn. Ingredients listed include mud, urine, arsenic, and vitriol. Pages 192-219 contain longer descriptions of dying processes, one attributed to Giacomo Udinese and another to Cesare Bizzi.

Check it out on our digital collections site.

[motherwench]

can’t fight your own nature! but you sure can try!!

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, Dyer's textile pattern book mid 19th century Part of RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design) Woodcut on paper; Cotton plain weave, resist printed 30.8 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm (12 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 1 inches)

[scandalousadventures]

Eyeball friends 👁️ They have glittery eyes (heads? faces?) In my shop here!

[the-cricket-chirps]

Sonia Delaunay

Compositions, Couleurs, Idées, 36 plates

1930

[carolinawrenn]

"Rainbow at Sea," made by Chris Cicotello

[loosethreadstitchery]

Finished earlier today. I was going for a bit of a stained glass effect, and it more or less worked. Cross-stitched outline with coloured blackwork fills.

Pattern here.

[hiddenromania]

In Botiza women use pigments extracted from plants, flowers and bark to colour their wool. Preferably the pigments of summer flowers are used, because the spring-pigments contain to much water - Mick Palarczyk

[floral-art-prints]

Flowered Textile Design, possibly by William Kilburn (1745-1818) by English School (colour lithograph)

[rosymushrooms]

skeleton hand & rose patch 🥀 based off of a similar design for a pin i made earlier this year! 100% hand stitched ❤️

available! sold, thank you!!

more embroidery on my etsy

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

florence + the machine lyrics x colors x textiles in art – red

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Lungs // Queen Anne, When Princess of Denmark – Willem Wissing and Jan van der Vaart 🩸 Kiss with a Fist – Lungs // Eleonora di Toledo – Bronzino 🩸 Lover to Lover – Ceremonials // Girl with a Doll in an Armchair – Alois Hans Schram 🩸 Ship to Wreck – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful // Portrait of Marie Casimire Zamoyska (Marysieńka) – unknown artist 🩸 What Kind of Man – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful // Portrait of a Young Woman – Arnold van Ravesteyn 🩸 Heaven Is Here – Dance Fever // Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany – after Justus Sustermans

[jamesusilljournal]

Multicolour Tibetan, Christoph Hefti, 2015

[squid----s]

Color gradation sampling.

Wool on cotton seine warp.

[empirearchives]

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.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago

[andivebeenaforestfire]

Amy Qualls

[aestrologist]

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