PATTERN PLAY USA

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PATTERN PLAY USA 〰️

View fullsize That’s more like it πŸ˜… Happy birthday to the one, the only….DOROTHY LIEBES 🌈 πŸ’— βš–οΈ πŸŽ‰βœ¨ This A+ example is in the @artinstitutechi • • • • • #patternplayusa #20thcenturydesign #textiledesign #textilehistory #de
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 β¬›πŸ”²β¬›πŸ”²β¬›πŸ”²β¬›οΈ 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
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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 (1️⃣2️⃣: dancer/choreographer/actor, 1955), Mattiwilda Dobbs (3️⃣: opera soprano, also 1955), and Chester B. Himes (4️⃣: author, 1962)...and 'Hawaii' by Josef Frank (5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣: designed for Svenkst Tenn while the Austrian-Swede wa
View fullsize Lurex in ALLLLL the colors ✨🌈🧢 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
View fullsize I hear French girl summer is a thing…πŸ‡πŸ‹πŸ‰πŸπŸ’ ‘Left Bank’ by Greeff, c. 1950, my collection 🩡 • • • • • #frenchgirlsummer #picnic #piquenique #picnicchic #greeff #leftbank #patternplayusa #sayitwithtex