Some pages from a pre-digital age with inspirations and sketches for textile designs: 2 postcards from Ljubljana: More peonies from Farmleigh: Front door flowering cherry: Have a nice weekend!
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Inspirations – old notebooks
Posted in design, dublin, flowers, garden, home, inspiration, nature, pattern, textile on May 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
More about Romeo
Posted in alexander McQueen, beads, costume, inspiration, Romeo Gigli, textile on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
More Romeo Gigli, and some Alexander McQueen, who worked in Gigli’s studio before studying design in London. The model in the ads is Kirsten Owen photographed by Paolo Roversi.
Romeo Gigli – inspiration
Posted in beads, inspiration, Romeo Gigli, textile on March 31, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Summer 1990: Winter 1991: Approximate pronunciation: Ro-MAY-o JEEL-yee
Holland shops, museums, souvenirs
Posted in flowers, holland, knit, museum, textile, water on February 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Thanks for recent comments! here’s a final round up… Window shopping: A shop selling Kyrgyz and Asian textiles: Made some purchases from Corien Ridderikhoff at kleikollektief: Some antique paper-cuts and Indian textiles from the Museums at Hoorn and Enkhuizen: The galleon at the Maritime Museum:
Bantry
Posted in garden, textile on September 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Thanks for all the comments on recent posts! I’m back home , working on the Jamieson and Smith project again, hoping to finish as soon as possible. I have lots more photos from the trip to Cork and Kerry. One of the highlights was a visit to Bantry House: Mini on the parterre: textile collage: [...]
Athens Museum
Posted in costume, greece, knit, portrait, textile, travel on May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Some more images from the Athens museum: Some knitting – not a lot – most of the textiles on display were embroidered or woven – and the knitting was difficult to photo in subdued lighting: Some stunningly elaborate costumes:
Royal Wedding
Posted in costume, london, textile on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There have been a lot of tv programmes about royal weddings recently – I took some photos of the television screen. The story and images of Diana’s dress were particularly interesting – the second image is of David Emmanuel sorting out the cocoon after it emerged from the gilded carriage – there was so much [...]
Haapsalu and Tartu
Posted in costume, design, estonia, knit, pattern, textile, travel on January 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A final round-up of the Estonia trip… Haapsalu is the epicentre of Estonian lace knitting – it’s a leafy seaside town with wooden houses, a castle, and a magnificent railway station. It was pretty quiet in June. Tartu, a university town in Eastern Estonia, was deserted for Jaanipäev, but we managed to find a coffee [...]
Old textile designs
Posted in design, textile on January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I used to do hand-painted designs for printed textiles in Italy – these examples date back to the early nineties. The patterns were printed for clothing and furnishing textiles, and sometimes for wrapping papers. Some were woven in multicoloured silks for neckties.
Tallinn
Posted in costume, dance, estonia, knit, portrait, tallinn, textile, travel on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some images from Tallinn’s Old Town, the City Museum, the Open Air Ethnographic Museum, and some portraits from Kadriorg Palace. I was working on swatches for the Ruff Shawl during this holiday. Click on the images for bigger versions.
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