Thursday, 20 February 2014

MoDa Collection Part 2: Extending your Journey

TEXTILE 

METHOD OF PRODUCTION




Wallpaper colour printed from linocut
Object number: BADDA4726
Design: Wolfes and birds
Height: 726 mm
Width: 560 mm
Method of production: Hand block printed


MoDa info:
Wall covering 
Designed by Angus, Peggyabout 1965
This is a wallpaper designed by Peggy Angus and printed from linocut, from around 1965.
 It features a design of stylized birds and dogs surrounding an ogee panel in two shades of orange/red.

The colors and the bird on the wallpaper reminds me of the Fenix.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seba-ing/3385180054/


From Vads Textile Collection

ID Number current: 8021
METHOD OF PRODUCTION: H;and block printed



Jacket from V&A Collections
Museum number: IS.100-1990
METHOD OF PRODUCTION: Hand block printed



MoDa Collections Part 1: Textile Detective

TEXTILE



                        
Object Number: ST3813
Design: Leaves 
Height: 100mm
Width: 555mm

1.When do you think this textile was made?
1920- 40 between the two wars.
2. How do you think it was made?
I think it was hand block printed Muslin.
3. What was it used for?
It appears to be a dress fabric that was detached  from the rest of the garment. I believe it is a dress collar.

MODA info:
Textile
1920 – 1940
Dress collar with a lively design of leaf shapes in shades of orange, brown and blue. 
( I think the leaves are also dark earthy green and cream). 
The scale and immediacy of the design suggest it may have been produced at an artist's workshop rather than an industrial-scale print works. A renewed interest in craft based printing techniques in the 1920's saw the establishment of a number of specialist, hand-block printing workshops. The work of Phyllis Baron and Dorothy Larcher, and the Footprints design studio is particularly well known. This collar is likely to have been part of the Silver Studio's reference collection.

http://blog.tuppencehapenny.co.uk/2011/11/building-vintage-wardrobe-blouses.html
http://the-dandy-life.com/fashion-in-film-splendor-in-the-grass-1961/1920s-peter-pan-collars/
The design of the collar is very interesting. It reminds me of the ones house wives would use in movies to recreate how a lady should look like back in the days. Mostly all bottom up.  


Vintage Vandalizm from Vintage Vandalizm blog
@boutiqueaholic from Vintage Vandalizm blog
                              Nowadays we use them also as necklaces sometimes to look sophisticated.
 I see this type of collars in dresses more often when I visit Vintage shops then in high street stores. 
It reminds me of Pin up Girls. 

Object Number: BADDA4253
Object Number: BADDA4249




                          
This are textiles from MoDa website. I recognize the same hand block printed technique has been used in this objects.