#TextileTuesday / #TigerTuesday 🐯
Baby Collar with #Tiger Circling the Neck
Lao Han (Old Han), Guizhou Province, China, 19th c.
Silk, cotton, plastic buttons
9 1/2 in. x 10 in. (24.13 cm x 25.4 cm)
Mingei International Museum 1998-51-046 https://collections.mingei.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%22Tiger%22&sort=9
#ChineseArt

#TwoForTuesday / #TextileTuesday:
Antelopers (Furnishing Fabric) x 2
Designed by Ben Rose (USA, 1916–2004) for Ben Rose, Inc., Chicago, 1965
Rayon & modacrylic, plain weave; screenprinted
67.3 × 61 cm (26 1/2 × 24 in), 67.5 × 57.5 cm (26 5/8 × 22 5/8 in)
Art Institute of Chicago 1996.376,7 https://www.artic.edu/artists/22194/ben-rose
#Bongo

#TextileTuesday:
Cloth (Manta), 1970s (collected 1978)
Otomí culture, Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo, Mexico
Factory-made calico/cotton, embroidered in satin stitch (Tenango embroidery)
L 98 x W 173 cm
British Museum Am1978,15.154
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am1978-15-154?selectedImageId=1613847084
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

#TextileTuesday:
Bedcover
Gujarat, India (for British market), 18th c.
Cotton, embroidered with silk
L 100 x W 122 in. (254 x 309.9 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 68.61 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/229248

#TextileTuesday :
Textile, “Sea Saw”
Designed by Ms. Sheila O'Hara (USA, b.1953), Manufactured by Muller-Zell GmgH & Co. KG, USA,1991
86% italian cotton, 14% polyester
Cooper Hewitt 1993-39-1 https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18645419/
#Fish #WomenArtists

#TextileTuesday :
Chair cover (with #Parrot )
Pennsylvania, USA,1875-1900
Wool: Plushwork, Embroidered
Winterthur 1970.1528 http://museumcollection.winterthur.org/print-record.php?srchfld=irn&name=111985&port=40138&output=HTML&version=100
#BirdsInArt

#TextileTuesday :
Ceremonial Betel-nut Bag, c.1900
Indonesia, East Sumba, Rende
Beaded panels of cotton & glass beads w/ fringe of cotton, glass & wood beads; lined with ?, plain weave; strap of cotton & glass beads over bast fiber (hibiscus or kenaf) core
Cord: Diam.: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); 64.2 × 33.4 × 6.7 cm (25 1/4 × 13 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.); Fringe: H.: 7.2 cm (2 7/8 in.); Body of bag without strap, fringe or cord: D.: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago 2002.929a.1 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180324/ceremonial-betel-nut-bag

#TextileTuesday Silk postcards from my husband’s grandad in France in #WW1 historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/lanc...

#TwoForTuesday + #TextileTuesday + #TigerTuesday
Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917-2017)
#Leopard and #Tiger, 1974
Wool on linen ground, 36 x 60 in. Private Collection
On display at “Dahlov Ipcar: The Possibilities of Pattern” @ Shelbourne Museum
#WomenArtists

#TextileTuesday :
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with #Hawk and Waves
Japan, early to mid-20th c.
Cotton, plant dyes
On display at Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA 2024.374)
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt
“The firefighter who chose this design for his coat valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.”