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Three-color prints
Analyzing the two-color prints was fairly straight-forward, so I expected more of the same with the three and up prints too. Nope. Not only did there seem to be more variety in color, but the colors overlap in more combinations which would leave me wondering if I was looking at overlap or a separately printed line? There were a surprising amount of ( Read more... ) -
Two-color prints
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Finished!
I have officially printed, cut, sorted, and tallied the fabrics in the V&A bed hanging. To recap for those not following my boring posts, the V&A Museum has a set of ca. 1730-1750 pieced bed hangings made of thousands of scraps of printed fabrics. They have graciously made high resolution photos available on their website of one of the panels. The ( Read more... ) -
Where has this been all my life?
Funny how you can research and research and think you've exhausted the internet and still find gems like this:
Identifying Printed Textiles in Dress 1740-1890 by Philip A. Sykas - Copperplate printed waistcoats from the 70s! I wonder if there would be any interest in this kind of product. It would be a LOT of work, but doable to print via ( Read more... ) -
A setback
I spilled water on my printed bedhanging swatches. Water + images printed on copy paper = not good ( Read more... ) -
Bed-hanging project
This post is mostly me talking to myself, as I doubt anyone is interested in the creeping progress of my research ( Read more... ) -
What do you want to know?
I feel like I'm drowning in information now that I've done so much research. I've covered the cotton trade, technical aspects of dyeing and printing, who invented what technique where, etc. I'd like to write up something useful, but I don't know what direction to go ( Read more... ) -
One more variation
I think I like this one the best, just because of the contrast two colors provides. What say ye?
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New fabric designs
I'm almost ready to order swatches of my newest designs! The vining columns are about 2 or 2.5" wide, and the red version is 4" center-to-center of the stripes.
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