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Antique fabric, sample books…

19 Monday Oct 2009

Posted by Trish in 18th century, Beds

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17th and 18th Century Fashion in Detail, 18th century clothing, Antique bed, Antique clothing, Antique embroidery, Antique Fabric, antique painted aubusson studies, antique painted canvas, Antique sample books, Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, Embroidery

Silk book Filley de la Barre Bed Chateau d'Azay-le0Rideau Trouvais

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.

Silk book samples Trouvais

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…

Fashion in Detail English c 1740 mantua petticoat of silk embroidered ivory ribbed silk

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

Silk pattern book

Prelle archives

Lyon, France

Silk sample book of silks woven at Saint-Etienne 1770-1810 Musee d'Art et d'Industrie Trouvais

Silk sample book of silks woven

at Saint-Étienne c. 1770-1810

Musée d’Art et d’Industrie

le divan nov 06

18th century French sample book

Prelle

Le Divan Fumior

Silk book hanks of silk thread, dyeing samples Caron Baudoin c. 1893 Quenin archives, Cuizner Trouvais

Hanks of silk thread…

Dyeing samples.

Caron Baudoin c. 1893

Quenin archives, Cuizner

Silk book Georges le Manaxh archichves, Tours, France Trouvais

Georges le Manach 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 Aubusson painting Trouvais

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 Aubusson painting 2 Trouvais.

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…

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Antique sample books…

13 Monday Jul 2009

Posted by Trish in Antique Fabric

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Antique Fabric, Antique sample books

le divan nov o6 c

“A collection of  sample albums,

marvelous mixtures of paper and fabric…“

sample book le divan 11 06

“…by all the large (fabric) houses of mode

and the private archivists of the textile.”

Le Divan Fumior Bohemien

archives Nov. 2006

le divan

le divan jan 08

Le Divan Fumior Bohemien

archives Jan. 2008

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samples french 18th c satin cooper-hewitt

French 18th century satin sample…

Sample france 1800 Cooper-Hewitt

French 1800 sample…

Sample book Cooper-Hewitt

Leather bound salesman’s sample book

late 19th century…

from the exhibition:

Multiple Choice

From Sample to Product

Cooper-Hewitt Museum

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Ribbons

French ribbon samples…

19th centuryRibbon 2

Bianchini-Ferier

Lyon, France

Both past listings  Ebay UK

Les Tissus Indiens du Vieux Perou by R & M Harcourt; Broderies Chinoises, and Tapissieries et Etoffes Coptes KT 08

Les Tissus Indiens du Vieux Perou

Broderies Chinoises, and Tapissieries et Etoffes

Bicornes Hats…

Sample book KT

Book of printed chemise and and dress fabrics,

roller printed and gauze…

c. 1860

book of gouache designs and off-strikes dating from the 1860s KT 08

Book of gouache designs and off-strikes

c. 1860

Kelly Taylor auction archives

sample book 2

Close up French Fabric Sample Book

Charles A. Whitaker Auctions

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