Textiles, Rugs, Fabrics
JACQUELINE GROAG: TEXTILE & PATTERN DESIGN: WIENER WERKSTATTE TO AMERICAN MODERN
Written by Chamberlain, Richard
Czech-born Jacqueline Groag (1903-1985) was an incredibly adept textile designer who trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna during the 1920s under Franz Cisek and Josef Hoffmann. She produced textile designs for the Wiener Werkstatte and some of the Parisian fashion houses while she lived in Vienna. She married the architect and interior designer Jacques Groag - they made a successful team.
TILE MAKES THE ROOM: GOOD DESIGN FROM HEATH CERAMICS
Written by Bailey, Catherine
From Heath Ceramics, the beloved California designer, maker, and seller of home goods, comes a captivating and unprecedented look at beautifully designed interiors where tile is an important and integral part of the design. Tile Makes the Room, by Heath's owners Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey, winners of the National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Mu
FROM ART TO STITCH
Written by Edmonds, Janet
Janet Edmonds creates amazing textile pieces inspired by the artists Chuck Close, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Matisse, Hundertwasser, John Piper and Giorgio Morandi. She outlines each artist's work, sharing what inspires her, then creates a series of artistic projects using various media and techniques, exploring this inspiration.
ONCE UPON A PILLOW
Written by Vizard, Rebecca
- Once Upon A Pillow is the first book to highlight a designer making luxury pillows from antique textiles. - Features an extensive glossary of sewing, stitching, and textile terms and categories. Once Upon a Pillow features a stunning collection of pillows and accessories designed by Rebecca Vizard.
EARLY CARPETS AND TAPESTRIES ON THE EASTERN SILK ROAD
Written by Gonick, Gloria
- A mystifying group of carpets and tapestries created along the Silk Route over five hundred years ago is the topic of this richly illustrated book. The carpets and tapestries with riveting yet puzzling designs have been preserved in closed treasure houses in the former Japanese capital since the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries.
INDIAN COTTON TEXTILES: CHINTZ FROM THE 14TH TO THE EARLY 20TH CENTURIES IN KARUN THKAR COLLECTION
Written by Guy, John
India has been at the heart of the global trade in textiles since ancient times, and cotton has been at the heart of the Subcontinent's economy for millennia. Indian dyed and painted cottons were admired in and traded to the Far East and the Mediterranean world for many generations before European interest in chintz created a new market.
KNOLL TEXTILES, 1945-2010
Written by Völker, Angela
The first comprehensive study of Knoll's innovative textile designs and the company's role within the history of interior design In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit.
HARRIS TWEED: FROM LAND TO STREET
Written by Platman, Lara
Harris Tweed is a unique woollen textile that has been hand-woven by islanders off the west coast of Scotland for generations. Worn worldwide, it is cherished both for the clothing made from it and as a fascinating traditional craft.
ARTISTS' TEXTILES 1940-1976
Written by Phelps, Annamarie
The development of textiles as an art form between 1945 and 1970, and the extent of collaboration between artists and textile manufacturers at this time, is unrivalled in modern art history. Raoul Dufy was the first twentieth-century artist to become seriously and successfully involved in producing textile designs.
IMPROV HANDBOOK FOR MODERN QUILTERS
Written by Wood, Sherri Lynn
Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms. Instead of traditional instructions, she presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure.
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