Exhibition of Rumanian Tapestry
Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1965. Softbound. White black and yellow wraps, 58pp, numerous color and BW plates. Accompanying catalog for exhibition. Includes a small history of the tapestry in Rumania. More
Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1965. Softbound. White black and yellow wraps, 58pp, numerous color and BW plates. Accompanying catalog for exhibition. Includes a small history of the tapestry in Rumania. More
New York: The Monacelli Press, 1997. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards with navy cloth spine. Red/White/Blue lettering. No dj.256 pp. with 235 color and bw illus. Cloth art, cloth history, functional cloth, and more. With several essays, an index of names, and biographies of the artists represented. Fascinating for anyone interested in..... More
Le Musee de Tel Aviv, 1971. Softcover. Aqua wraps, unpaginated, BW illus. Text is in French, English, and Hebrew. Issued in conjunction with a 1971 exhibition of French tapestries from the 20th century. With introductions by Haim Gamzu and Bernadette Contensou. Features the work of 10 master artists -- Pierre..... More
Bonnes, France: Editions les Gorgones, 2000. Paperback. Color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. 189 pp. with occasional bw images. From the publisher's series Trames & Savoirs. Ten papers in French from the conference held June 1996 in Paris and one paper in English. Includes abstracts of each paper in both French..... More
Paris: Librairie Grund, 1948. Softcover. Off-white ill boards with off-white cloth spine. Unpaginated, loosely lain. 80 color plates. Text in French. Theme-grouped plates including floral, pastoral, monuments, mythological/ancient, the hunt, poetic and dramatic scenes, Napoleon, and a series of African themed plates entitled "Indiennes de Traite" More
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, 1987. Softcover. Bw photographic wraps with white lettering. 160 pp. with bw and color illus. throughout. Text in French and English. With a preface and introductory essay. The catalogue features a small bw photo of each artist, very short biographic material, brief commentary about..... More
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, 1987. Softcover. Bw photographic wraps with white lettering. 160 pp. with bw and color illus. throughout. Text in French and English. With a preface and introductory essay. The catalogue features a small bw photo of each artist, very short biographic material, brief commentary about..... More
Lausanne: Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, 1987. Softcover. Color-illus. wraps with white lettering. 126 pp. with color illus. throughout. Text in French and English. With a preface and introductory essay. The catalogue features a small bw photo of each artist, very short biographic material, brief commentary about his/her work, and..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with red and black lettering in mylar cover. 383 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "This is the first complete reference book to give an overview of Flemish tapestry history; spanning the period from..... More
Malines: The Gaspard De Wit Foundation, 1993. Hardbound. Black cloth with gold lettering and illus. dj; 121 pp. with full-color illustrations. More
1991. Softcover. Black wraps. 53 pp. 35 color plates. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Peter Barnett. More
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1912. Softbound. Gray folder with tipped on title plate and brown ribbon ties, two booklets (20pp each) and ten monotone plates tipped-on to stiff board. The sub title of this volume is "Selected and Edited by Theodore M. Dillaway, Director of Manual Arts, For Use..... More
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2002. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 397 pp. BW and some color illustrations. The catalogues of the Paris Salons at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century provide a unique archive of illustrations of..... More
Paris: Ducher et Cie, 1877. Hardbound. Black library buckram in matching slipcase. tp, 4 preliminary sheets from the four parts, 37 pp., followed by 100 bright and vibrant chromolithographs, each with preceding explanatory textsheet. Oversize and heavy. This large reference work reproduces the embroidery, silk and lace through the ages..... More
New York: The Monacelli Press, 2014. Hardcover. Green boards with silver lettering on spine; color illustrated dust jacket; green spine with white lettering; 382 pp, profusely illustrated in color. "A fully revised reissue, updated and enhanced with new color photography, of an influential work on American textiles and their British..... More
Cambridge: The M. I. T. Press, 1969. Hardcover. Red cloth, brown ill. protective cover. 199 pp. No ills. Rosetti's "Plictho" was the first basic technical manual on dyeing. Facsimiles of the 1548 edition are included in this gorgeous publication, followed by translations of the dyeing instructions. The book also includes..... More
Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Lund Humphries, 2007. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth, rust and off-white and color illus. dust jacket, 255 pp., BW and color illus. Arranged in dictionary A-Z format. "Includes nearly 1200 entries covering generic topics such as woven textiles, printed textiles, embroidered textiles, tapestry, painted cloths, yarns, dyes, carpets, rugs..... More
Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1980. Revised from the 1966 edition. Hardbound. Blue denim-like cloth with gilt lettering; 341 pp. with occasional bw photographs. No dust jacket. A bit heavy at 5 pounds and may require extra postage. Contents as follows: Organization and use of the book -- Key to..... More
Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 1966. Hardcover. Blue and beige cloth boards with gold gilt lettering, beige and pictorial dust jacket with red and black lettering, xxvi, 339 pp., bw illustrations. "The descriptive classification of fabric structures presented here is based on a long and wide-ranging study of representative fabrics from..... More
Bruxelles: Lamertin, Editeur / printed by J.E. Goossens, 1807. Second Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's green pictorial silk/flexible boards; black lettering. 331 pp. with 439 bw illustrations. Text in French. Catalogue of textile works in the Musee Royaux des Arts Decoratifs in Brussels. Each work is described by Madame Isabelle Errera, a...... More
Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 2012. Hardcover. Red cloth wraps, white dust jacket with color illustration. 363 pages. Color and bw figures. In German (intro also in English). The volume surveys the Abegg-Stiftung collection of emoriodery. Although Werner and Margaret Abegg were primarily interesting in weaving techniques rather than embroideries, the collection..... More
Florence: Cantini, 1986. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with brown stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 318 pp. BW illustrations and color plates. Text in Italian. This book is an illustrated directory of Art Nouveau fabrics, their motifs. It also presents a stylistic analysis by country. -Librairie Descours. More
Kungl. Husgeradskammaren, 1979. Written in Swedish and English. Text by Stig Fogelmarck and Lis Granlund. Illustrations of mid 19th-century bed and window hangings in Sweden's Rosendal Palace. More
Italy: EDIFIR, 2010. Color pictorial wraps. 215 pp., profusely illustrated in bw and color. The volume presents the eighteen tapestries of the Acton Collection, including production from Flanders, France, and Italy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The manufacture and historical context of each tapestry are discussed and illustrated..... More
New York, NY: Franses, 2005. Softcover. glossy color pictorial wraps; 70 pp.; 63 bw figures, 17 color plates. 21 October - 25 November, 2005; Features 14 tapestries with full-page color detail photos of each; Extensive annotations. More