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?Early machine-made textiles with ancient Egyptian themes are very rare. Although the ancient Romans had brought back obelisks and statues as plunder when they conquered Egypt, it was Napoleon’s Egyptian military campaigns that refocused Europeans on this ancient civilization. By the late eighteenth century, Egyptian motives began to appear on all types of fashionable decorative objects and furniture. This textile was used for both furniture and wall covering. Most of the surviving examples of this textile are printed in black or brown, but a rare version in red and yellow is also recorded. This textile was designed by Jean-Baptiste Huet and printed by Oberkampf, Jouy-en-Jonas, France, about 1808. The motives are taken from a series of plates in a famous multi-volume set of books by Louis Francois Cassas, “Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie…et de la Basse Egypte,” published from 1799. Posted by Barry R. Harwood, Lark Morgenstern, and Caitlin Crews -- source link

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