Download or read book Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century from the Victoria and Albert Museum London written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The designs of eighteenth-century woven silk in England and France exemplified skills acquired over two millennia: in their range, quality and beauty, they have perhaps never been excelled. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, contains by far the most important and extensive collection of English silk designs in the world, some bound as they were originally, others loose, and still more as samples of fabric in pattern books. The designs changed with the season and, through these pages, we can see fashion evolving from the extravagances of the 'bizarre' silks of the early eighteenth century, through the 'lace' patterns and three-dimensional effects of the 1720s and 1730s, to the Rococo of the 1740s, the stylization of the 1750s and 1760s and, finally, to the Neo-Classicism of the 1770s and later. The diversity in motif and pattern is astonishing, and subtleties of texture contrast with colours as brilliant and fresh as they were two centuries ago. Here, in more than 250 magnificent colour illustrations, is a treasure house of inspiration for today's designers, a captivating record for students of costume and textiles, and a delight for anyone who loves things of beauty.

Download or read book Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum London written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bizarre and the Beautiful written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century written by Clare Browne and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The designs of 18th-century woven silk in England & France exemplified skills acquired over two millennia, with remarkable range, quality & beauty. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London contains the most important collection of English silk designs in the world, some bound as they were originally, others loose, & still more as samples of fabric in pattern books. The diversity in motif & pattern is astonishing, & subtleties of texture contrast with colors as brilliant & fresh as they were two centuries ago. Here is a treasure house of inspiration for today's designers, & a captivating record for students of costume & textiles. 250 full-color illustrations.

Download or read book Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century written by Wendy Bellion and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways. By embracing things both elite and everyday, this volume investigates physical and technological manipulations of objects while attending to the human agents who shaped them in an era of accelerating global contact and conquest. Featuring ten essays, the volume foregrounds diverse scholarly approaches to chart new directions for art history and cultural history. Ranging from California to China, Bengal to Britain, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century illuminates the transformations within and between artistic media, follows natural and human-made things as they migrate across territories, and reveals how objects catalyzed change in the transoceanic worlds of the early modern period.

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Silks written by Abegg-Stiftung and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 18th century silks written by Hans Christoph Ackermann and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book SILK DESIGNS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY written by Natalie Rothstein and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seidengewebe des 18 Jahrhunderts written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Portrait of a Woman in Silk written by Zara Anishanslin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.

Download or read book Silk Gold and Silver written by Chiara Buss and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 18th century silks written by Regula Schorta and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Baroque and Rococo Silks written by Peter Thornton and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1965 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Taste for the Exotic written by Clare Browne and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 18th Century Embroidery Techniques written by Gail Marsh and published by GMC Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with intricate drawings, color photos, and excerpts from 18th-century writings, this enthralling book is your passport to a bygone age. Fashion and textiles lecturer Gail Marsh offers insights into the lives of 18th-century embroiderers; their equipment, stitches, and threads; and techniques such as working with metal thread and spangles, silk embroidery, tambour, and the forgotten arts of Hollie Point and knotting. A must-have for historical costume creators, collectors, and needlework enthusiasts.

Download or read book The Silks of Lyons written by Cyril G. E. Bunt and published by Leigh-on-Sea [Eng.] : F. Lewis. This book was released on 1960 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selling Silks written by Lesley Ellis Miller and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant's sample book acquired in 1972 by the V & A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries and their commercial practices. Alongside a full and faithful reproduction of the whole album, Lesley Miller sets in context the role of the book as a marketing tool from the premier European silk-weaving centre of Lyon and as a model for Spitalfields manufacturers. This publication makes accessible the contents of an extremely rare and fragile object. Translations of French inscriptions, identification of how samples have migrated from one page to another, and technical analysis of some of the silks, as well as a glossary and biographical data on the Lyonnais suppliers make this an invaluable resource for historians, collectors and designers."--Publisher's description.