My thoughts on Textile History by Margy Norrish

  • Virginia Lee Burton of Folley Cove Designers

    Folley Cove Revisited Several years ago I wrote about a mid-19thC American cooperative, Folley Cove Designers from Cape Ann, Ma. ( 5/25/12) Recently I received correspondence from Christine Lundberg, an independent film producer.  Christine has produced a documentary on Virginia Lee Burton, her life and career, Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place. Virginia (Jennie) Lee…

  • “A Celebration of American Quilts”

    “A Celebration of American Quilts” is a small exhibition accompanied by a very large reference volume, “Four Centuries of Quilts”.  The DeWitt Wallace Art Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, is showing only a small number of quilts from their large collection (12 quilts).    The real gem is not the exhibit, however,…

  • "A Celebration of American Quilts"

    “A Celebration of American Quilts” is a small exhibition accompanied by a very large reference volume, “Four Centuries of Quilts”.  The DeWitt Wallace Art Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, is showing only a small number of quilts from their large collection (12 quilts).    The real gem is not the exhibit, however,…

  • Another Look at Kiminos

    Another Look at Kimonos “Enjoying the Cool at the Ryogoku Bridge”, Utamaro Kitagawa,         (1753-1819) In my blog,  Modern Kimonos ( November, 9, 2014), I reported on an exhibition at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) which featured over 30 modern kimonos from their collection. Another famous institution, The Metropolitan Museum…

  • Another Look at Kiminos

    Another Look at Kimonos “Enjoying the Cool at the Ryogoku Bridge”, Utamaro Kitagawa,         (1753-1819) In my blog,  Modern Kimonos ( November, 9, 2014), I reported on an exhibition at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) which featured over 30 modern kimonos from their collection. Another famous institution, The Metropolitan Museum…

  • A Christmas Tradition

    “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would  be there”. A visit from St Nicholas, Clement Clarke Moore, 1823  The People’s Home Journal, December 1907   F.M. Lupton, Publisher, New York Legend has it that St. Nicholas was traveling through a small village and heard of 3…