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1920s (made)
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One of 211 designs for woven and printed silks, pasted down or tipped into a pattern book (some loose, many folded) on 200 pages of brown wove paper. Quarter bound in vellum with marbled boards.
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Materials and techniques | Pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, gouache, metallic pigment, ink, pastel, various papers, vellum, marbled boards, drawing, pasted, tipping in |
Brief description | Pattern book of textile designs for woven and printed silks, from the firm of Bianchini-Férier, Lyons. French, 1920's |
Physical description | One of 211 designs for woven and printed silks, pasted down or tipped into a pattern book (some loose, many folded) on 200 pages of brown wove paper. Quarter bound in vellum with marbled boards. |
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Object history | Bianchini-Férier of Lyons was the most fashionable firm of silk weavers for couturiers in the first half of the 20th century, supplying amongst others the Houses of Poiret, Jeanne Lanvin and Jean Patou. The firm was internationally renowned for the production of high quality textiles for the luxury market and employed fashionable painters and designers, such as Raoul Dufy and Georges Barbier. Two matching albums containing samples of textiles actually woven from these designs are in the museum’s Textiles Collection, museum numbers T.219-1992 and T.220-1992. |
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Accession number | E.361:210-1993 |
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Record created | March 19, 2009 |
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