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Magic Cloths of Power
This year has been one not to be imagined: uncontained forest fires, hurricanes and floods and contentious politics. As if that were not enough to dismay one’s soul, we are hit with the worst medical disaster in modern times. Not just us here, but everywhere!! The morbidity and mortality rates continue to be staggering. But…
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Therese de Dillmont
Therese de Dillmont (Oct. 10, 1846 – May 22, 1890) Portrait She was an outstanding needleworker and embroiderer with over 100 books attributed to her and her niece on the subject. She attended an embroidery school founded by Empress Marie-Theresa as a young woman, having been educated in Vienna. She established her own embroidery studio…
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Wm. E. Wright & Sons Co.
It all began with bias tape. Designed to enclose raw edges, bias tape can be made from a single piece of fabric , obviously cut on the bias into strips. It can be single folded or double folded. However, bias binding can be found in the notions section of any fabric store. It is available…
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The Disappearing Department Store
In a recent article in the WSJ (Wed. Aug. 5, 2020) Suzanne Kapner described the downward spiral of the iconic American department store. The list of stores filing for bankruptcy includes, J C Penney, Neiman Marcus and the latest is Lord and Taylor. Perhaps the reason for this business debacle is not so apparent, it…
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A New Edition to Collections
A new edition to Collections Several years ago Cinnamon Studio.com produced a two volume set of interactive CDs which featured the history of feedsacks along with several hundred visuals of actual vintage feedsack fabrics. During this stay-at-home period we produced another two set volume of CDs. This time my collection of Indonesian textiles is the…
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Homes for Travel
Homes for Travel Before the existence of RV’s, double-wide mobile homes and “tiny “houses which can be towed by pickups, nomadic peoples throughout the world constructed shelters which they could easily dismantle and take with them. The nomadic pasturalists of Central Asia lived, according to the Chinese, in the “Land of Felt” as their world…
My thoughts on Textile History by Margy Norrish