Ukrainian folk embroidery has an integral place in Ukrainian decorative arts, communicating regional values as well as important to cultural and social events #WomensArt
Eight-pointed star tiles decorated walls of shrines, mosques & palaces in Iran.
Many of these tiles were taken by archaeologists & are found scattered across the world in museums & collections, fragmented & decontextualized.
A thread on beautiful Iranian star tiles in museums…
ON THE BLOG | Did you know the word chintz refers to a technique, rather than to the fabric itself? As we look ahead to Chintz: Cotton in Bloom, we thought it would be fitting to explore the techniques used to create the textiles: https://t.co/oOzJhSWwEW
#MuseumFromHome
“No amount of delicacy is too great in drawing the curves of the pattern, no amount of care in getting lines right from the first can be thrown away, for beauty of detail cannot afterwards cure any shortcoming of this” -William Morris @PATTERNOBSERVER blog https://t.co/vAlFxmxNmM
Designer Michael Young has collaborated with @WovenImage1 to make these acoustic wall panels with 'technical decorations' based on algorithms
https://t.co/raIUp4oMav
#surfacedesign#MichaelYoung
IKEA x Zandra Rhodes | @IKEAUK believes that to make a house a home, the injection of colour & pattern is necessary. That’s why they're collaborating with Zandra Rhodes on product range to translate her famous textile prints & patterns into homeware! More: https://t.co/cpnQeiRr4f