Coptic Textile Design Work
Illustration: Silk textile design from Alexandria, 6th century Some of the most colourful and obviously charming textiles to come out of what we would see as Ancient Egypt were those produced during the early Christian era. These Coptic textiles, named after the Christians of Egypt, the Copts, have little that seem at first to be immediately identifiable as belonging to Egypt.
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Coptic Textile Design Work
This morning's paper offers a severely abbreviated version of the story I wrote about Ansel Adam's “lost” negatives being revealed at a Beverly Hills gallery yesterday. As many readers have asked for more detail — things like background, figures, etc, that were included in my original story — I'm re-publishing it here.
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Ansel Adams in full
Illustration: Wall tiling decoration of the Pavilion of Mahubay, 16th century The influences and origins of nineteenth century English decorative arts, its pattern work, design styles and principles, is both complex and wide ranging. However, at the forefront of these influences is undoubtedly the impact of the decorative arts of Islam. From the reform principles of Owen Jones to the accomplished founder of the English Arts & Crafts movement William Morris, to the many designers, decorators, critics and writers of Victorian Britain, Islam proved to be a particularly rich deposit of what determined to be the fundamental level of all design, decoration and pattern as seen by the Victorians.
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The Influence of Islamic Decoration on the Victorian
Illustration: Sidney Haward wallpaper frieze 1893 Sidney Haward, one of the best known of British textile and wallpaper designers of the period spanning the decades that saw the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, is relatively unknown today. Despite the fact that Haward was seen in the same light and at the same design level as other British designers such as Voysey and Mawson, and that he also ran the Haward Design Studio which was to provide Liberty with much of its design work during this period, it seems strange yet interesting how his work seems to have faded away.
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Wallpaper Design by Sidney Haward
Illustration: Nineteenth century macrame border fringe design Macrame is a form of knot work that although not strictly considered to be lace itself, is related to that discipline and was sometimes in the past known as macrame lace. The name macrame originally comes from the Arabic migrameh which is said to denote ornamental fringe.
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Macrame Decorative Work
Illustration: Nineteenth century tambour work Tambour style embroidery work is said to have originated in China and then travelled throughout Asia via India, Persia and Turkey, eventually reaching Europe in the eighteenth century. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the style was brought directly to Europe from China by the French, also in the eighteenth century
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Tambour Embroidery Work
Illustration: Barbara W Watler Fingerprint series #50: Unity The textile art work of Barbara W Watler is intriguing in more ways than one.
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Barbara W Watler and the Fingerprint Collection
Illustration: Sicilian Islamic themed woven brocade 12th century Although the Islamic occupation of Sicily did not reach its final stage until 965, the influence of partial occupation and trade links with the larger Islamic world for the previous two centuries had an enormous influence on the crafts and culture of this Mediterranean island. Sicily was well known for its textile production during the emirate period of its history. To be fair, most if not all of the textiles produced were largely Islamic in flavour and theme.
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Medieval Sicilian Textiles
Illustration: Egyptian Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 To many it must seem at times as if there were so many revival themes that passed through the nineteenth century that there were far too many to even count.
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Owen Jones and Egyptian Revival
Illustration: Walter Crane Illustration from Sleeping Beauty 1876 Walter Crane is well known for his widespread and still relatively popular illustration of children’s literature. Working in tandem with this was the work he produced for children’s themed wallpaper, or nursery wallpapers as they termed. Crane’s wallpaper design work for children in particular, came directly from his illustrative work for children’s literature
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Walter Crane Nursery Wallpapers
Illustration: Aemilia Ars Society needlepoint lace Lace making in Europe saw a great, if temporary renewal in its fortunes during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Various organizations and schools were set up across the continent and had varying degrees and rates of success. Many were linked to either government or aristocracy, or both.
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The Aemilia Ars Society
Illustration: Jette Clover White Wall 1 2009 The work of the textile and mixed media artist Jette Clover deals with the graffiti of life. She has chosen to represent the visual language of the human species through the use of the written, rather than that of the spoken language.
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Jette Clover and the Graffiti of Life
Illustration: Ferdinand and Anna Boberg A Funeral at Leksand, Dalecarlia, Sweden tapestry 1908 The tapestry A Funeral at Leksand, Dalecarlia, Sweden which was designed by the husband and wife team Ferdinand and Anna Boberg, became one of the central themes of the 1909 Art, Craft and Industry Exhibition held in Stockholm. Both Ferdinand and Anna were multi-disciplined artists and designers who produced work in a range of craft disciplines
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Ferdinand and Anna Boberg and the Art, Craft and Industry Exhibition of 1909
Illustration: Otto Prutscher Carpet design c1909 This piece of design work can be seen as a prime example of what many have come to associate, and in some respects even expect, from the design movement of the Wiener Werkstatte. It was produced as a carpet design around 1909 by one of the prominent members of the Wiener Werkstatte, Otto Prutscher. Prutscher had the great fortune to be taught at the Viennese Art School by amongst others, Professor Josef Hoffmann
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Otto Prutscher Rug Design
Illustration: Rayna Gillman Kaddish In this particular series of artwork pieces textile and mixed media artist Rayna Gillman appears to deal in fragments of generational memories. These are often physically overlaid in her work and can sometimes resemble a collaged and annotated journey.
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Rayna Gillman and Fragments of Memory
Illustration: Illuminated manuscripts from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones did not produce a separate chapter in his 1856 The Grammar of Ornament for illuminated manuscripts. It was in fact a sub-section of his Medieval Ornament chapter, which also included examples of stained glass, ceramic tiles and other standard decorative work. Of the three pages of illustrations within the chapter that dealt with illuminated manuscripts, all of which are shown here, some were taken by Jones from examples in the British Museum and some from Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages which was originally published in 1849 by Henry Noel Humphreys.
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Owen Jones and Illuminated Manuscripts
Illustration: Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott Landscape wallpaper frieze c1895 Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott the British architect and designer is perhaps much better known for his architectural work, closely followed by his work in the design world, in particular his instinctively crafted furniture design. However, Baillie Scott also managed to produce both textile and wallpaper design work particularly during the two decades that spanned the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
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Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott Wallpapers
Illustration: India Flint original textile work The Australian textile and dye artist India Flint has taken elements from her family history and turned it into a creative journey that gives the impression of becoming a lifelong one. Flint has always been intrigued and imbued with her family’s make-do-and-mend attitude
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Creative Dying from India Flint
Careers in the News:As originally reported by MSNBC, a growing population of Americans find themselves on the brink of exhausting the government maximum of 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
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As unemployment runs out, education may be key to career success
Career Education: Microsoft Corporation, an international leader in software, services and technology solutions, will provide free vouchers to the entire state of Ohio to pay for online training and certification courses in using its variety of products.
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Microsoft offers online training and certification to Ohio residents