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Candlelight and roses…

21 Wednesday Oct 2009

Posted by Trish in 18th century, Antique Fabric, Beds, French Interiors, Gardens

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Antique beds, Antique Fabric, antique porcelain, Antiques, French design, Metallic embroidery

Karl Lagerfeld Fabrics Trouvais

Lit à la Polonaise dressed in floral printed silk…

Karl Lagerfeld’s apartment in Paris

Personally…I would have switched out the lamp shade

for a candelabra…

1stdibs French c. 1860 bronze flat back

French bronze c. 1860

1stdibs

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Silk taffeta embroidered in chain and Beauvais stitch, late 18th century

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Cressida

David Austin …English rose collection

Wisteria book box

Wisteria book boxes

Thomas Chippendale seating Burton Constable Hall Fabrics by Lebear

Thomas Chippendale seating c. 1778

for drawing room at Burton Constable Hall

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Madame Ernest Calvat

French porcelain c. 1803 Chantilly

French porcelain c. 1810

Chantilly

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Honorine de Brabant

1stdibs c 1810.detail

1stdibs c 1810

French Empire Embroidery on a Silk and Down Pillow Empire Period c.1810

Unbelievable survival of French Empire embroidery portraying peacocks with snakes

and other romantic flora and fauna. Silver, gold and intense indigo threads on brilliant

deep pink silk with a softly time faded quality.

1stdibs

Raspberry silk moire walls and chair Trouvais

Raspberry Moiré on the walls of the queen’s bedroom at Kina Slott, Drottingholm Palace. From my archive of old House and Gardens.

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Sources: Fabrics: The Decorative Art of Textile by Caroline Lebeau

1stdibs, Wisteria.com, Ebay, my garden…

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Gilded opulence…

12 Wednesday Aug 2009

Posted by Trish in Antique Fabric

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Ecclesiatical textiles, Metallic embroidery

Tricia Guild Venetian  3

Venetian Palazzo

Tricia Guild

Pattern

Covered cup and saucer made for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, ca. 1760 MET

Covered cup and saucer made for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna

c. 1760

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gold trim 19th c ecclessiastic remnants pillow 1stdibs

Ecclesiastical fragments

France 19th century

1stdibs

Beautiful French ecclesiastic valence fragment pillow

which is hand appliqued to the “Cloth of Gold” and

backed in vintage pale gold French silk “peau de soie”…

Fashion in Detail 17-18th 2

Satin Gauntlet embroidered with silk and metallic thread, purl

and spangles, trimmed with silk ribbon and silver-gilt bobbin lace…

English c. 1600-1625

Fashion in Detail

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century

Avril Hart and Susan North

Metallic embroidery

Formal Court bodice…

first half of 18th century

Metallic Embroidery 2

Metallic embroidery bodice detail …

Fulgence Collection, Paris

Silk

Jacques Anquetil


Ruins antique silk embroidered alter runner fragment

Antique silk embroidered Altar runner fragment…

Ruins:

Antique and Vintage Textiles, Fabric and Trim

Chasuble LACMA

Ecclesiastical costume

Bologna, Italy

c. 1735-1740

Silk ecclesiastical clothing with silk and

metallic thread embroidery, and metallic braid trim…

LACMA

Ecclesiastical embroidery 19th c France ebay

Ecclesiastical embroidery

19th century France

current eEbay

Tricia Guild 6

Samarkand Fabric

Designer’s Guild

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