#english textiles

[fashionbooksmilano]

Living with Textiles

Elaine Louie

Mitchell Beazley, London 2001, 144 pages, over 140 colour photos, 24x29cm, ISBN 9781840003871

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Chinese silks, Egyptian linens, Afghan rugs: every culture recognizes the sensuality and functionality of textiles. Yet, too often their striking contribution to the modern interior is overlooked. Over 140 eye-opening color photos reveal what a wonderful difference they make, draping the walls, covering a bed, upholstering the furniture, warming the floors, softening the lines. Display a small hooked rug as a piece of art, or turn an obi (a kimono sash) into the perfect table runner--you're limited only by your imagination. Every page features a new application for textiles in the home, from hangings to room dividers, as well as information on particular fashions and period effects, including Indian, Japanese, African, French, and English Formal. It's inspiration and information for bringing unique style to your environment.

17/07/23

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[pebblethief]

⋆ ｡ ° ✩ Starquilt ✩ ° ｡ ⋆

38"x39.5" English paper piecing - all handsewn

[quiltingwitch]

Swords for a sword lover, finally complete ⚔️

[floral-art-prints]

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

[cormorant-red]

My second English paper piecing project is done!! Modeled by @solmicans, the birthday girl recipient. All hand-sewn, started in May and finished last week, just in time to start spending all my free time on a KAL instead.

[thehagstone]

The Greenman & The Holly king: 16x16cm patchwork panel, hand sewn.

[museum-archives]

Portière made from Morris & Co. Oak damask (one of four)

Embroidered by: May Morris (English, 1862-1938)

Designed by: William Morris (English, 1834-1896)

For: Morris & Co. (English)

English 1892-93

Object Place: England

Silk damask, embroidered with silk in darning, satin, stem, long-armed cross, buttonhole and couching, with silk fringe and cotton lining

[gailyinthedark]

The word "defiled" being used specifically to describe knights trampled under the feet of horses in battle sent me down an etymological rabbithole. Apparently it comes from Medieval Latin fullare (to full), which stems in turn from fullo, an occupational word meaning "one who fulls".

Fulling is something I've experimented with quite a bit. It's the process of agitating wetted fabric, usually wool, in order to bind the fibres closer together, partially felting them and making the fabric heavier and thicker once it's dried. Scottish tartan material is fulled, and Vikings also fulled their outerwear to make it weather-repellent. When I was trying to recreate historical diapering methods with my daughter earlier this year, I made several fulled wool pilchers to help prevent leaks, which worked well.

Fullare seems to refer specifically to fulling fabric by stomping on it, a common method in ages past which draws quite an image for the poor fallen knights. Nowadays we tend to think of defiling as soiling or dirtying something rather than stomping on it; this is partly thanks to the influence of a similar-sounding Old English word, fulen ("to rot"), the ancestor of today's "foul".

I have to get my surgical staples out later today, which isn't fun, so I'm glad I've got some lovely new etymology to distract me.

[rawrbees]

I went to the Powerhouse Museum today and saw the famous dressing gown from 1935, and I have to say I was ecstatic

[martha-anne]

A work in progress. I’ve been sewing this quilt by hand, very gradually, since 2020. It started life as a labour of lockdown love and was inspired in part by a hexagon quilt made by @nonasuch. All the fabric I’ve used is scraps gratefully received from friends and relatives who sew regularly, or old clothes cut up, or charity shop pillow cases. Individually I think some of these fabrics are horrid, but everything looks nice once it’s part of a patchwork quilt.

Now that I’m most of the way through the quilting step this is tantalisingly close to being a finished project - but I expect I’ll still be at it for another year.

Using this quilt pattern: https://www.talesofcloth.com/products/mandolin-quilt

[liefst]

blocks i've made so far for my quilted blanket :-)

[fungusqueen]

So I had an original plan to put these mini hexagons on 3" x 4" coin pouches BUT I think I'm just going to make a mini quilt instead with this fuchsia fabric as a background because I only have tiny amounts of each fabric. I MIGHT make one hexagon coin pouch for myself to test out if I actually enjoy the process enough to continue making them. A lot of people upcycle old quilts for making bags/pouches and I can see that as being creatively sustainable, but doing the actual piecing and quilting IN ADDITION to the sewing into a functional object is exponentially more labor-intensive. I definitely need to dip my toes into that whole endeavor by starting small

[pebblethief]

starquilt progress! only one section left :)

[quiltingwitch]

Does the sword lady ad even exist anymore? I was getting kind of attached to her.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Honeysuckle, furnishing fabric, designed by William Morris, made for Morris & Co., 1876, Leek, England

[blackswaneuroparedux]

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

- William Morris, William Morris by Himself: Designs and Writings