#old textiles

[halljavalge]

Source: tidningenlantliv

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ

[scrixels]

I made a catfish bag!

my own design, made from some upholstery fabric remnants and a Very Pink shirt. it even has little pockets inside!

and a bonus photo of the tiny prototype bag I made:

[marzipanandminutiae]

"it was my mother's. it was my grandmother's"

"I don't want it thrown away."

"I've asked around, you know, but none of my kids or grandkids-"

"they just don't sew, and dolls creep them out, so-"

treasure comes in a paper shopping-bag, one of the big ones, brimming with lace wrapped around old notecards. a hand-embroidered linen tablecloth of thorny rose vines. a Tupperware container, rubber-banded together around a tissue-paper wad with an Art Nouveau belt buckle at its heart. yards of beaded silk fringe. long cotton stockings. petticoats like the froth on a cresting wave

things saved and put by for when the fashions changed and clothing had to be remade- until that stopped, and clothing came only from a rack and went only to the dump, and the stockpile lost its purpose

Post-Its stuck on this and that: "1910." "was my great-aunt Martha's." "this is real lapis, I think." little bits of provenance like whispers on the wind, things nobody thought to write down until they were only half-remembered

the women always look so grateful, as if I'm giving them something rather than claiming an inheritance before they've even died. I, a stranger- yet, I suppose, kin at heart, because we both look at this bounty and see more than old junk (or, at most, dollar signs in an Etsy store)

family who found each other on Facebook or at a museum event or in the middle of a street festival

fairytale logic applies: you can't go looking for these kinds of gifts. you can't ask for them outright. you find them by showing genuine passion and enthusiasm for antiques, sewing, dolls, whatever, when there's not an expectation that you'll get something rare and valuable out of it

it's not a king's ransom. it's not a happily-ever-after. it cannot fix the broken world we're both living in

but it's beauty and love. and two people- one nearing the end of a story, one closer to the beginning- saying, goddamnit, this little bit of light is worth passing along

[fashion-from-the-past]

[etherealarte]

Omar Baban Design

[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.

[saltedsnailstudio]

linocut prints on vintage doilies

[frillyvanillyblogs]

I get a lot of joy from making little things by hand. 💕

I make jewellery and wearable textile art inspired by EGL and other Harajuku/Japanese Street Fashions, Jan Švankmajer, Christiane Cegavske and other stop motion animators, puppets, dolls, oddities, tea parties and nature.

Please follow me over on Instagram @/cur.cab.cre for more <3

[pam3pr]

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[fashion-from-the-past]

1905

[uncanny-tranny]

If I'm honest, the whole "love in every stitch" saying for fiber artists does not apply to me, like. I'm trying to get this fucking hook into stubborn yarn and I'll be stabbing it like it owed me money. Is that love because I hope not 😭💀

[chiropteracupola]

Poverty, poverty knock / Keeping one eye on the clock / I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle / Go poverty, poverty knock...

...so I read @nothwell's novel 'mr warren's profession' at approximately light speed the other day and felt like drawing some of the cast.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

i did Not cry in the museum but it was a very near thing

[teddiecircus]

picture!

[scandalousadventures]

Krampus doll 🎄 Hope you've been good this year!

[groverarms]

2 more of Great Great Grandma's needlepoint masterpieces circa mid 1800's

Look at Great Great GREAT Auntie's sampler from the 1700's.