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View fullsize ๐ŸŒท๐Ÿ’ Tulips, for spring ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŒท but let me tell you how groundbreaking it is ๐Ÿคฉ Soon, you’ll be preordering a book all about d.d. and Leslie Tillett and taking a deep dive into Tillettdom with me, where my mind has been for over a year now ๐ŸŒทI th
View fullsize GRasS ๐ŸŒฟgrASs ๐ŸŒฟGrAss ๐ŸŒฟ ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿฐ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿช˜๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ This has all but disappeared from my algo, so I’m bringing it back because nothing has given me this much joy in ages ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’—๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ?
View fullsize That’s more like it ๐Ÿ˜… Happy birthday to the one, the only….DOROTHY LIEBES ๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿ’— โš–๏ธ ๐ŸŽ‰โœจ This A+ example is in the @artinstitutechi • • • • • @dorothyliebesstudio #patternplayusa #20thcenturydesign #textiledesig
View fullsize Congratulations! If you've stuck with me long enough, you've finally made it to the *least colorful fabric* I've ever posted, and the moment you get to witness me eat my words: beige is not boring! Really, what I mean is if beige is on Dorothy Liebes
View fullsize Make mine MOSAIC โฌ›๐Ÿ”ฒโฌ›๐Ÿ”ฒโฌ›๐Ÿ”ฒโฌ›๏ธ Catch that little patch of Paul McCobb's 'Mosaic Elements' for L. Anton Maix in this New York Times poster, designed in 1956 by Henry Ries. Who designed the furniture? Modernism geeks please lemme know. • • &b
View fullsize Some of you asked for this! More Carl Van Vechten & textiles. Van Vechtextiles, if you will. It's Ruth Reeves birthday today (born #otd in 1892), and Carl had a few of Reeves designs in his backdrop box (actually I do not know it was a box? but I
View fullsize Where my fellow textile collectors at? Informal poll: how do you manage your collection? Do you inventory everything using a spreadsheet? Or do you use a collection management database? Do you catalogue each one as it's acquired...or do you wait for
View fullsize A recent flea-market find: the patterned leaf montage 'Hausa' by Calister Thomas for Woodco, one of five designed by her & copyrighted May 1, 1972. Thomas had been working for a weaving company in Manhattan when dd & Leslie Tillett invited
View fullsize Carmen de Lavallade (1๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ: dancer/choreographer/actor, 1955), Mattiwilda Dobbs (3๏ธโƒฃ: opera soprano, also 1955), and Chester B. Himes (4๏ธโƒฃ: author, 1962)...and 'Hawaii' by Josef Frank (5๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ: designed for Svenkst Tenn while the Austrian-Swede wa
View fullsize Lurex in ALLLLL the colors โœจ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿงถ Possibly the best Lurex ad in "The Thread of the Story is Lurex" campaign (American Fabrics magazine, Spring 1959). I wonder if this sparkling spool display was a feature in Dorothy Liebes's studio, or if i