Category Archive: textile

30 Nov

coloured binding

coloured binding

Australian Bookbinding has it’s annual showing at the AGNSW, ending tomorrow. Various designers playing with the idea of graphic enticements of the book covering variety. …

 
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17 Nov

René Fumeron

René Fumeron

Currently admiring the work of René Fumeron, a French designer whose work with both Gobelin and Pinton Frères factory in Aubusson is a shining testament to the 50s and 60s.

 
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14 Nov

Paris fleas

Paris fleas

Flea chairs are a tad difficult to carry on the metro, let alone back to a guest couch, so I sadly had to forego each purchase. I will go back with a car next time! and suffer the drive and the tunnel, since what I saw would make it all worth it.

 
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12 Nov

Venetian French Rococco Chair

Venetian French Rococco Chair

It’s easy to look back at the past and think that all other eras knew their own minds and with purist zeal were able to create entirely new work, for and of the time, without reference to their predecessors. Not so at all, which is one reason why I love scouting around the decorative arts in museums so much. Perhaps they validate my penchant for re-appropriation. Influence, or inspiration?; magical words that treat us to new ideas and open an old way to a new frame of vision.

 
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22 Oct

Alba Prat

Alba Prat

And so to Berlin, Berlin! and the work of Berlin fashion designer Alba Prat, a sculptural and breathtakingly post-post-modern voice. Her Tron-inspired collection, “Digitalized,”  features …

 
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17 Sep

Horsehair Lace

Horsehair Lace

The intricacy of the woven horsehair strands; their red dyed coloration and the tiny scale of brooch and necklace components is perhaps not surprising for a country with such a lace-making heritage.

 
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24 Aug

Brook Roberts and the Eye of the World

Brook Roberts and the Eye of the World

Roberts draws inspiration from x-rays and CT scans, body-mapping and contouring the human form. For AW2011 the collection teams with accessories from Eye of the World; a collaboration between Liam Motyer [a teacher] and Hope Von Joel [a stylist]. Each wooded accessory is uniquely crafted and finished by hand in London. It is a balance where each offsets and carries the other into a seamless look.

 
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20 Aug

Sybil Connolly Couturier

Sybil Connolly Couturier

Nine yards of unpleated linen was required to make one yard of the pleated fabric. Linen, a notoriously creasing fabric, is fairly crease resistant when smocked. The gown would likely have been quite light and very comfortable since the fiber breaths and is quite absorbent, making for a gown that is both beautiful, form fitting and comfortable.

 
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07 Aug

Ptolemy Mann

Ptolemy Mann

I love Mann’s use of colour in revitalising such a community space. This application of surface colour and pattern [in geometry and stripes] seems to carry a timeless message of vitality. There are no motifs or imagery to define or segregate, but the message ‘comes across’ for this application.

 
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06 Aug

Bardith on Madison

Bardith on Madison

Favorite Manhattan stores… Bardith is on this list for sure…the beginnings of an education.

 
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