Ellen Askey

Workshop of Pierre Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

Study of a child's head, n.d.

#FrenchArt
@ Christie's

A Printer's Sample Book, 1880-1881. The entire book has been digitized and is available to download, and includes 149 fabric samples, notes on dyes for printed #textiles. Thank you, #CooperHewitt collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1857...

Cray design wood block printed in pale blue, pale pink and teal. The wood block join (or pattern repeat) is visible cutting through the leaves of the design.

Furnishing fabric of printed cotton, 'Cray', designed by William Morris, 1884.

Possibly printed by Stead McAlpin for Warner and Sons, Great Britain, ca. 1955.

You can see the join in the print repeat where the design has been wood block printed 🤤

#textiletuesday

Lovely tiles. Scotney Castle, in Kent, has these beautiful medieval tiles. #tilesontueaday

Welcome to our account! Here we will be sharing items from our historic dress archive. This 'Folly' fancy dress from around 1883-6 was presumably based on a design in 1882 'Fancy Dresses Described' by Ardern Holt (seen on the left). More on our website: thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/fanc...

I found what I think is the oldest known Barbardian sampler, in the RSN collection. Made by Martha Collymore in 1771. There's more about my discovery in this month's History Today & here: collections.royal-needlework.org.uk/object-rsn-1.... Caribbean material culture folks, I'd love to talk to you!

The Iris Apfel collection

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An absolute riot of personality to slap you in the face on a gloomy Monday morning

OM double G

Introducing Art UK's new ceramics project | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK. Featuring over 300,000 artworks by over 50,000 artists.

My love for sculptural ceramics definitely shows with the three objects I picked for this story introducing the new @artukdotorg.bsky.social ceramics project I am part of:

artuk.org/discover/sto...

An evening coat from the V&A collection. This collection picture shows just the Pale pink silk heavily gathered at the chest coming across the right hand shoulder to meet a length of trim in tarnished golden colour, woven with an eye shaped design.

This image from the V&A collection shows a close up of the woven trim. Embroidered eye shapes in a tarnished looking shade of golden thread. The design has eye shapes and columns running in strips of about 5cm (by the looks of it)

This is tantalizing!

Pink silk satin

Gold-thread embroidered net at collar & applied at an asymmetrical angle at the back of neck and at the cuffs.

Voluminous balloon sleeves

two large lead-weighted bows.

Swathe of draped silk satin falls from one shoulder

Grecian drape

V&A collection 1912

Fascinating, thank you ☺️

Do we assume fabric never matched because fabric was not in abundance and what was used, was used up. Continuous patterns in garments, a total luxury ..entered the system...from what date ish...?

These sleeve panels were meant to be worn under a gown or bodice with open sleeves. They gave the impression of a lavishly decorated smock or waistcoat under the bodice of the gown but were cheaper & less bulky to wear. #English, 1615-1625
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

It's making me pull a vinegar face

I should do too...But I've just realized I'm really up tight about fabric 🤣🤣🥲

Like nails down a blackboard kind of matching of fabric down the center back

printed pages of a children's book sewn together to form an outfit of ra-ra trousers! and big tied fabric bows hold up the costume over the shoulders. colours are creams, pinks, reds and green.

the fabric pages of the book are sewn together , one page says "Mary had a little lamb l, his fleece as white as snow, where ever Mary went he was sure to go" another image is of two dogs playing tug of war with a book, tugging on a page each at opposite ends.

Rag Book Peddler Girl

Costume manufactured 1910-1930 to promote Dean's Rag Books which were books for children printed on fabric. This costume, made of pages from their books, sewn together, and supplied free to advertise the company's products

Ra-Ra trousers ❤️


V&A

A white tule and sequined party dress. Silver braiding around the neck, arms, waist and hem. The arms are short and puffy the waist to the hem is gathered and puffs outwards. Delicious beyond words.

A child's party dress. 19th century. Tule and sequins. Little puff sleeves. Silver braiding. For perhaps a 2 or 3 year old child because of the size. how special is that! Imagine...where this little party dress was worn and for whos party....🥲

#ScotneyCastle #nationaltrust

A 19th century child's waistcoat with a small colourful floral motif on a black silk fabric. Woven Jacquard fabric. Buttons in the same fabric as the body.

A child's waistcoat of cream silk fabric with a silk embroidered trail of pink and lilac flowers on green leafy stems trailing down the front openings on both sides.

Two delicious 19th century children's waistcoats. One jacquard woven fabric and one embroidered on silk. Both so special! 😍 🥲

Nice depiction of the wool sack too.

Can we call "Oil on Canvas" "Flax on Flax"

A hedgehog triptych; how utterly delightful! 🦔

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

Apply culture liberally to your life and reap the benefits.

Glass plants at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Glass plants at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Glass plants at Harvard Museum of Natural History

The incredible Ware collection of Blaschka glass models of plants at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Looks like she's taken her knickers off over her head

Now deciding between a curled fringe or a Vemeer style head wrap 🙌

I'm looking out for (facilitated or non-faciliated acts) hands on interactions with heritage/museum objects that have a positive or negative outcome. where the story of the object is transformed and the interaction reacted too in our current times.

This is one of those 👇

A close-up detail of a painting. Most of the image is filled with part of a long white skirt, hanging in folds, covered with intricate and colourful motifs such as a three red lilies, two yellow irises, a purple and yellow sea monster with tusks, a green snake with an open mouth, a white swan raising its wings, an orange and yellow butterfly, two pansies, a black and white bird with a neck like a goose and long pink legs, and others. The scale is not realistic; flowers are larger than animals. In the top left corner is a red velvet pillow with a large, complex tassel on the corner. To the right of that, partially cut off by the edge of the image, is a large piece of jewellery with black stones and three large teardrop pearls. A red cord hangs down from this and loops back up.

For #FlowersonFriday, a detail of the Hardwick Hall Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I with iris, lily, pansy, strawberry and other plants worked amongst waterfowl, sea monsters and snakes on her petticoat. Is it an embroidered or painted or imaginary skirt? What do you think?

Prunella Clough
1919-1999

Skip Rope. Painted 1999.

Sketchbook.
www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/...

Fun fact about Frank Stella. He loved Gee's Bend quilts. He loved them so much that some of his paintings look remarkably like quilts. Until recently, who was admired & praised most often? Who was shown in galleries? Stella or quilters? Guess.