#TextileTuesday #TapestryTuesday:
Märta Måås-Fjetterström (Sweden, 1873-1941) Tapestry, c.1915 Handwoven with linen yarn in warp & wool yarn in weft H 235 cm x W 123 cm Nasjonalmuseet OK-1995-0066
#TextileTuesday:
Textile with Animals, Birds, and Flowers Eastern Central Asia, late 12th–14th century Silk embroidery on plain-weave silk 14 5/8 x 14 7/8 in. (37.1 x 37.8 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1988.296
"This textile demonstrates the longevity of motifs in eastern Central Asia. The placement of animals—a spotted horse, a rabbit, and two deer (or antelope)—at its cardinal points is a compositional device that began to appear in the region during the Han dynasty. The birds on the piece, especially the parrot, entered the Central Asian repertoire during a second period of strong Chinese influence, the Tang dynasty. The floral background's central motif of lotus blossoms, a lotus leaf, and a trefoil leaf was seen in Central Asia and North China but became widespread during the Yuan dynasty."
For #TextileTuesday, check out all the cool animals on this wrapper!
Man’s Wrapper (Akunitan) Akan, Ghana, 20th c. (before 1987) Wool, 211.7 × 342.2 cm (83 3/8 × 134 3/4 in.) Art Institute of Chicago 1986.1045
Fünf Schwane, 1897
Designed by: Otto Eckmann (German, 1865–1902)
Woven by: The Kunstwebschule Scherrebek (German)
Woven wool & cotton, 241.3 x 107.3 cm (95 x 42 1/4 in.)
#TextileTuesday:
18th c. French bed hanging - lots of cool fantastical birds & dragons but check out the neat trio of rhino, elephant, & camel in the center! Also a bonus cameleopard (giraffe).
Unidentified French Embroiderer(s) Bed Hanging 18th century Linen ground, wool and silk embroidery threads Baltimore Museum of Art 1952.148b
On display at “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at BMA