"Never before has the universe of printed textiles had a book of this magnitude and lavishness devoted to it"
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"Never before has the universe of printed textiles had a book of this magnitude and lavishness devoted to it"
TEXTILE DESIGNS: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns for Printed Fabrics by Susan Meller and Joost Elffers
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"This book is the catalogue for the largest picture show in the world: the images on printed cloth...Some motifs follow the tides of politics, or of wealth and recession. Some appear rarely, some are always being printed somewhere. None vanishes. '
About Susan
My primary interest and expertise is in printed cloth and Central Asian textiles. I was a textile designer, strike-off artist, and founder of The Design Library (an archive of several million documentary textiles). I am currently working on a book about Central Asian textiles...
Published Reviews
Sep.29.2008
The intriguing title, with its mingling of the commonplace and the exotic, neatly sums up the collecting field that fascinates Meller and sets her apart from the typical high-end textile hunter who is...
Sep.29.2008
Seldom does a new textile book invite one to view its subject matter in an entirely new light, from an entirely new perspective. Russian Textiles does just this...(It) changes the landscape and presents a...
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First Place: The New York Book Show
Considered "the bible" in its field. 17 years and still in print. 1833 color illustrations.