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About Me
- Lois
- I am an obsessive textile addict, funding my 'habit' by unwillingly selling some of the beautiful antique and vintage textiles that I come across. As well as private sales, you can find me on ebay under the name vanye90, or see my ebay shop, Morgaine Le Fay Antique Textiles. A web site may be on the cards soon... I sell mostly French textiles, but also come across English and European pieces from time to time. I enjoy ferreting out all sorts of interesting items, for example, 19th century French cottons & linens, huge chateau curtains, 18th century silks and embroideries, 16th and 17th century lace (occaisionally, when I can bear to part with them), fine linens, haberdashery as well as unused and pre-used antique and vintage fabrics such as florals, tickings, hemp runners, silks etc for projects such as cushions or pillows, framing, drapes, whatever your imagination can think of! My new blog, Interesting Antique Textiles will discuss some of my more obscure, strange and often quite damaged textile finds with the hope that people may want to join in the discussions, and make some suggestions about the pieces based on their own experiences and textile knowledge!
The fine work that has gone into that first piece is stunning, the colours are beautiful too. The other textiles are of course just as lovely.
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I agree Abby, it is from a 19th century Chinese silk embroidered sleeve band that was turned into the front panel for a desk blotter at some point. the butterflies are really tiny, and totally exquisite!
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting Lois, at first glance I thought it may be part of a Cantonese shawl, but on closer inspection the fabric looked too thick. It is hard to get an idea of scale looking at a photograph, so thank you for enlightening me.
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