The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast glo

The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast global history of textile making and sewing traditions in New York City. In participation with New York Textile Month, we will be showcasing one textile per day for the month of September.  While difficult to narrow it down to only thirty textiles, we think these works are best at weaving narratives about topics such as innovations in the textile industry, craft and the beauty of the handmade, textiles from legendary designers like Frank Lloyd Wright and Anni Albers, as well as textiles with a sense of humor. Did you know that PeeWee’s Playhouse had a line of textiles made?The Omega Workshops was an artists’ cooperative founded by Roger Fry in London in 1913 with other members of the so-called Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. This workshop was a direct descendant of the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts Movement inspired by William Morris that championed the hand-made and strove to break down the barriers between so-called high art such as painting and decorative arts. Omega designed a full-range of mostly hand-made objects including textiles, pottery, carpets, furniture, stained glass, dresses, and whole interior decorating schemes. Omega textile designs, such as this one, were ahead of their time and set a fashion for bold, highly colored abstract and geometric patterns that show a strong influence of Cubism and Fauvism.Posted by Barry R. Harwood, Lark Morgenstern, and Caitlin Crews -- source link
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