For #InternationalPolarBearDay on #FabricFriday 🐻‍❄️:
Fabric Sample (with #PolarBear design)
Beith, Stevenson & Co, Manchester, 1911
printed cotton, W 65.4 x L 76.2 cm
V & A Museum T.304-2002:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73537/fabric-sample-beith-stevenson/

#FabricFriday:
Wall Hanging - Tenango Embroidery
Otomi culture, Hildago, Mexico, 20th c.
Cotton, 77 1/2 x 72 in. (194.32 x 182.88 cm)
Mingei International Museum 2007-49-058B
https://mingei.org/collections/artful-animals
https://collections.mingei.org/objects-1/info?query%3Dmfs%20any%20%222007-49-058%22
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt
#FolkArt #AnimalsInArt

Starting the day with #FabricFriday 🥰

For #InternationalCatDay on a #FabricFriday: 🐈
Ready-to-sew Tabby #Cat doll, Arnold Print Works, MA, USA c.1892.
“This roller-printed heavy cotton ready-to-sew doll was one of several patented by Arnold's.”
The directions on the cloth read:
“Sew up the sides and head and stuff cotton, then sew on the oval piece. Stuff flat at the bottom so the cat can stand up.”
On display at Fashion & Textile Museum’s “Textiles: The Art of Mankind”
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16Ag1yMmLY/
#CatsInArt

For #FabricFriday on International #HorseshoeCrabDay:
Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (USA, 1909-1968)
Low, Low Tide, 1962
(Folly Cove Designers collection)
Ink on cotton
Cape Ann Museum:
https://old.capeannmuseum.org/collections/objects/low-low-tide/
#WomenArtists