The “Filley de la Barre“ bed
Late 17th or early 18th century embroidered white satin bed canopy
Château d’Azay-le-Rideau
Just imagine the industry behind creating beautiful fabrics for dress, bedding, drapery,
carpets…and communicating that design to the customer in the 18th and 19th century …
Antique sample books and oil painted aubusson canvas studies
are a collectible part of the process.
Eighteenth-century silk patterns were primarily floral. Lyon silk manufactures
regularly sent their designers to Paris to meet with artists specializing in flower painting,
and to visit the botanical gardens…
Flipped on it’s side…
View of English c. 1740-45 mantua petticoat…
Ivory ribbed silk embroidered with colored silks and silver thread
17th and 18th Century Fashion in Detail
Avril Hart and Susan North
Silk pattern book
Prelle archives
Lyon, France
Silk sample book of silks woven
at Saint-Étienne c. 1770-1810
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie
18th century French sample book
Prelle
Le Divan Fumior
Hanks of silk thread…
Dyeing samples.
Caron Baudoin c. 1893
Quenin archives, Cuizner
Georges le Manaxh archives…
Tours, France
…more on sample books here
including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum exhibit…(click to view)
Unless otherwise mentioned, all photos from Silk Jacques Anquetil
19th century French pastoral scene…
Oil on canvas painting, created for the development of Aubusson wovens…
Features a scene of sheep and a lamb, framed by decorative elements
such as scrolls, a fabric swag with tassels, and garlands of flowers and leaves…
Ebay
19th Century French painted Aubusson sample…
Beautiful bouquet of roses, peonies and other assorted flowers, fruit and berries in a
basket surrounded by a cartouche interlaced with rose vines…oil on canvas
Antique World Fabrics here
Ebay
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Heather Clawson of Habitually Chic was recently in Paris and visited the
Pierre Frey headquarters where there is an extensive collection of antique fabric
and wall paper, antique clothing, painted canvases and even a room model
to show how fabric would look in the room…visit here…
