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.