Showing posts with label pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pattern. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

scarab necklace at the Louvre

borrowed from Lark about

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Prints







This is more color than I usually like, but these are so wonderful.
Muriel Brandolini designed them
http://www.murielbrandolini.com/
She doesn't have pattern names. They are just called "Orange #1" or "Grey #4"

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's dresses

I love the entire fresco cycle - The Allegory of Good and Bad Government - But I really adore the dragonfly and caterpillar fabrics these women are wearing ( As did all the girls in Sarah Cree's seminar)

Friday, March 27, 2009

Silver

Palm trees?

Pack of wild dogs

one on each arm

Fabrics




A detail from Duccio's Maesta- the pattern intricacy & colorstory (and hands)
In the same building were some textiles similar to the ones he is painting here.... I will edit the post to include those later

Sea Creatures + Flowers





The octopus is the most fun-From a public bath in Bevagna
chevron layout of mosaic and large orange flowers in Spoleto

Stone Floor Patterns




From the Duomo in San Marco-ideally take it verbatim and use on a floor, or make a quilt, or embroider on fabric