Tag: fabrics

• Eveline Syme

  

  Modernist Eveline Syme also attended the George Bell school in Toorak, Melbourne.

  2012-03-23

• Frances Burke

  

  Many students passed through George Bell’s art school.

  2012-03-19

• Wool in Peking

  

  Vogue Australia was one of the first fashion magazines given permission to shoot in Peking. It was 1981.

  2011-11-09

• Talbot’s Sheep

  

  Imagine the brief from the Australian Wool Board. Women and Sheep.

  2011-11-08

• Rene Cup Covers for The Australian Women’s Weekly

  

  Not a horse in sight for these Melbourne Cup Women’s Weekly covers.

  2011-11-03

• Canvassing Portraits

  

  Oh the great Spring Racing Carnival lovingly captured by visiting artist Carl Kahler.

  2011-11-02

• Here They Come by G.R. Ashton

  

  The brother of painter Julian Ashton, George Rossi Ashton, came to live in Australia for 14 years or so and captured beautifully the characters of the time.

  2011-11-01

• Gayety at Flemingtoniana

  

  Australian Town and Country Journal sent journalist Sleipner to report on the 1882 Cup Day.

  2011-10-31

• Textile Utopia

  

  William Morris was a brilliant pattern maker.

  2011-10-21

• Vionnet Fabric Sculptures

  

  Madeleine Vionnet revolutionized (a strong word I know) garment making by introducing the bias cut.

  2011-10-20

• Dior’s Gardens

  

  Another bit of history from Dior.

  2011-10-19

• Dior’s Fussy Lace

  

  Christian Dior started off life running a small Daddy financed art gallery.

  2011-10-18

• Hermès’ Homage to Albers

  

  When Hermès made its first silk square in 1937 Josef Albers hadn’t yet painted a square.

  2011-10-14

• Albers’ Woven Together

  

  Josef and Anni Albers were together, a couple, living collaboratively.

  2011-10-13

• Weaving Jewellery

  

  Anni Albers is from the weaving world.

  2011-10-12

• Jewellery Portraits

  

  I saw this portrait of Eszter Harazty and wondered who had taken the photo.

  2011-10-11

• Anni Albers and Portraiture

  

  Portraiture kept popping up for me this week.

  2011-10-10

• Loopy Things

  

  In the Knoll Textiles book I was also drawn to the work of Viennese born Gretl and Leo Wollner.

  2011-10-07

• Eszter Haraszty and Knoll

  

  When I was writing about Ludwig Becker’s Fata Morgana a couple of weeks ago I had to look up the meaning. The expression has popped up again. The name of one of Eszter Haraszty’s textiles for Knoll Textiles. La Fata Morgana is an Italian phrase for the Arthurian sorceress Morgan. The Sicilians believed the mirages often seen…

  2011-10-06

• Angelo Testa and Knoll

  

  Another stand out for me in the Knoll Textiles’ catalogue is the work of Angelo Testa.

  2011-10-05