Posts Tagged ‘textiles’
The ivy-covered walls of Berkeley Forest, an elegant Georgian home amid fields of sheep in Ireland’s County Wexford, seems an unlikely place to find a private collection of historic textiles and fashion to rival Paris or London. For decades, Countess Ann Bernstorff has gathered period clothes and fabric from her own family’s trunks, auctions and […]
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Tags: Ann Bernstorff, Berkeley Forest, Ireland, Irish textiles, textiles
I recommend anyone serious about patterns to explore the richness of Chiyogami paper (江戸千代紙). Chiyogami, literally “thousand generation paper”, is a woodblock-printed paper that Japanese use to write special letters, poems, wrap gifts, cover books and even make paper dolls or small boxes. Starting in Kyoto’s imperial court, the popularity of Chiyogami spread to Tokyo […]
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Tags: chiyogami, Edo, Isetatsu, Ito-ya, Japan, paper, textiles
