Dresses by Adrian in the spring 1952 The Californian.
(source: archive.org)
Guerlain ad illustrated by Lyse Darcy, from the April 1951 French Vogue.
(source: Gallica)
"Die Wettertanne" (The Weather Fir), Karl Hermann Müller, from a 1913 Jugend.
(source: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg)
Dogs and birds made of cork, pipe cleaners and other materials by Raymond de Lavererie, in the May 1930 French Vogue.
(source: Gallica)
Silk and feather evening shoes designed by Roger Vivier and made by Delman for the House of Dior, 1954.
(source: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Bird-shaped bottles of Vigny Chick-Chih perfume in the September 1, 1926 issue of French Vogue.
(source: Gallica)
Silk evening dress by Callot Soeurs with “long fluid versions of the vestigial sleeves seen on Ottoman coats,” 1925-26.
(source: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Birds, by Wilfredo Lam, 1959.
(source: RISD)
Silk stockings with birds, probably French, 1885-89.
(source: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Familiar Birds of the Pacific Southwest.by Florence Van Vechten Dickey. Stanford University; First edition, third printing (1945).
(source: Kultur on Flickr)
Length of jacquard woven silk furnishing fabric with a pattern of birds, flowers and leaves, designed by Jules Leleu and Madeleine Lagrange for Bianchini-Férier, made for the ocean liner Maréchal Pétain (subsequently renamed Marseillaise). 1941.
(source: MFA Boston)
Bed linen embroidered with a pattern of trees, squirrels, birds and deer, English, late 17th-early 18th century.
(source: MFA Boston)
Silk book cover embroidered with cockatoos, caterpillars, a lion, a tiger, a butterfly, and flowers, England, 1600-1650.
(source: MFA Boston)
Swallow and letter print silk crepe dress and vest set, 1937-1942.
(source: Musuem of the City of New York)
Printed cotton fabric fragment, India, ca. 1840.
(source: Cooper Hewitt)
Silk evening dress by Elsa Schiaparelli, Summer 1939. The print features swallows carrying letters closed with sealing wax. Schiaparelli wore this to the Eiffel Tower anniversary party with a matching jacket trimmed in ostrich feathers.
(source: Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Child’s wool mitten knit with motifs of chickens, tea kettles, cats, birds, and berries, and with the words “friendship’s token” around the wrist, American, mid-19th century.
(source: MFA Boston)