Category Archives: Textile Design

André Durenceau - Inspirations 1928

(Please click all these thumbnails to see the bigger pictures)
Illustrator, artist, muralist and bon viveur André Maurice Durenceau was born in Auray, France in 1904 and by the time he was 24 he’d emigrated to the USA and had his first limited edition folio of designs, called “Inspirations”, published.
There’s very little easily accessible biographical [...]

Some Kimono Fabrics

While doing some visual research for an ongoing project, I came across this beautiful group of textile print designs from a photo set on Flickr.

Here’s the Flickr set it forms part of -

There’s a blog called Teatime, that is linked to the set …

… that contains some very lovely vintage illustrations of Japanese and [...]

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