My main focus is still 3rd quarter 18th century, but during my research I found a textile design book ca. 1812-13, and some of the swatches were too interesting to resist
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I actually really like the original! Flying Olives! I love it!
The other two designs in pink and blue on white are close seconds for me, though I do know number 4 shows up in a great deal of paintings of children from the period. (red print on a pink ground)
"If you have an interest in Regency fashion, please tell me which three colorways you like the best."
Interest without much in the way of study, and nothing in the way of credentials either formal or informal or unofficial, I like numbers 1, 3, and 4.
And that's "I like," not "have any notion that these were done or can be documented," so my opinion should be taken as such (merely opinion) and entirely discounted if it has no worth. For the marketing record, though, I'd buy fabric of this design in those colorways, budget permitting.
After realizing how many more options there were for buying accurate Regency fabrics, I realized that I'd better think more about sale-ability than accuracy! So, even an uninformed opinion helps. I think I might proof 1-5, and maybe a couple new 18th c. designs if I can crank some out quick enough.
Somewhere in Arnold's "Pattern of Fashion" series is a drawing of a print which is purple on white and I seem to recall it's from the early 1800s and/or the Regency period, but don't quote me on that. I'd tell you which volume, but those seem to change according to edition and printing---and binding.
Anyway, I thought the frock and the print quite handsome. And if I could get my hands on that print, I'd skip meals and skimp on meals until I could afford the yardage to make up a version of that dress, or some other I have in my mental wardrobe.
I think I found the one you're talking about: c. 1798-1805, Salisbury Museum. "A morning dress in white cotton with a small, regular, geometric pattern printed in dark purple."
Unfortunately, there's no image of the pattern, unless I'm overlooking it.
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The other two designs in pink and blue on white are close seconds for me, though I do know number 4 shows up in a great deal of paintings of children from the period. (red print on a pink ground)
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Interest without much in the way of study, and nothing in the way of credentials either formal or informal or unofficial, I like numbers 1, 3, and 4.
And that's "I like," not "have any notion that these were done or can be documented," so my opinion should be taken as such (merely opinion) and entirely discounted if it has no worth.
For the marketing record, though, I'd buy fabric of this design in those colorways, budget permitting.
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Happy to have been of service, ma'am!
Somewhere in Arnold's "Pattern of Fashion" series is a drawing of a print which is purple on white and I seem to recall it's from the early 1800s and/or the Regency period, but don't quote me on that.
I'd tell you which volume, but those seem to change according to edition and printing---and binding.
Anyway, I thought the frock and the print quite handsome.
And if I could get my hands on that print, I'd skip meals and skimp on meals until I could afford the yardage to make up a version of that dress, or some other I have in my mental wardrobe.
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Unfortunately, there's no image of the pattern, unless I'm overlooking it.
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