Textiles
Textile design includes tapestries and quilts as well as smaller pieces of embroidery like samplers, conceived to demonstrate a variety of stitchwork.
This form has attracted modern artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Henry Moore but antique examples by both named and unnamed hands are also a popular collecting area.
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Textiles: Sumptuous stumpwork emerges from Eve Clarke collection
27 August 2024Examples of this three-dimensional technique stand out as part of a dealer’s collection
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Quaker antiquary and family put together an extraordinary collection
27 August 2024The first section of the Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) Historic Textiles & Antiques auction on July 26 contained 33 lots of textiles from the collection of the Quaker antiquary Martha Spriggs and her descendants.
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Pin ball wizards in play
27 August 2024A recent timed online sale at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium) featured a couple of pin balls that performed well.
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More orphanage samplers in demand as hand-worked textiles prove sought-after
27 August 2024Tennants’ Fashion, Costume and Textiles Sale held on August 16 provided many hammer highlights.
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Sampler made in Bristol fashion
27 August 2024Estimated at £60-100, a late 19th century sampler sold via thesaleroom.com for £4600 at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Colwyn Bay.
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Lock from Florence Nightingale encapsulates the diverse lots in a North Yorkshire auction
12 August 2024One of the more unusual items on offer at Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) Summer Fine Sale was a lock of hair from the 19th century nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). It was thought to have been cut in 1883 when she was 63 years old.
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Rare 19th century Bristol orphanage sampler emerges at auction in Wales
06 August 2024Estimated at just £60-100, a late 19th century sampler sold for £4600 at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Colwyn Bay.
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Contents from Ann Broadbent’s Georgian mansion head to Wimbledon Auctions
31 July 2024Wimbledon Auctions has secured a consignment of works from the Greenwich mansion of the late Ann Broadbent, a well-known local eccentric who rose to fame when House of Hackney made a short documentary on her and her house seven years ago.
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Five questions with Streett Marburg
01 July 2024Streett Marburg has specialised in 18th century furniture for many years. His partner Charlotte Casadéjus is known for conservation work in antique textiles and her French embroidery and linen expertise has led to the creation of bespoke cushions and bolsters. In 2019, Streett and Charlotte opened their first shop in Lillie Road in west London.
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Marble reliefs impress at sale of George Farrow collection at Roseberys
04 June 2024The ornate collection of 567 lots including tapestries and bronze sculptures from China, the Middle East and Europe went under the hammer at the London auction house
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Eye on the needle for Firsts fair
20 May 2024A book elaborately illustrated with needle-work samples and commemorating Queen Victoria’s first trip to Ireland as monarch was one of the standout sales as 'Firsts London’s Rare Book Fair' opened.
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ATG Letter: ‘The first black person depicted on a sampler’
13 May 2024Two readers add to the discussion on the depiction of a figure in a sampler
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‘First black person to be depicted on a sampler’
29 April 2024Jeremy Knight, a book collector and the former curator of Horsham Museum and Art Gallery, believes he has purchased an artwork that is “the earliest-known illustration of a black person on an English sampler”.
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Plea to raise final £40,000 for Kelmscott Manor’s Samson tapestries
17 April 2024The Society of Antiquaries and the Kelmscott Campaign Group, led by antiques dealer Martin Levy, are hoping to raise the final £40,000 needed to conserve Kelmscott Manor’s Samson tapestries.
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Subject matter boosts sampler to over 80 times estimate
08 April 2024Embroidered samplers can appeal to buyers for all kinds of different reasons.
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Textiles fair weaves an Indian pattern
01 April 2024Handmade quilts, jackets, shawls, cushions and bags from Rajasthan will be on offer at textiles fair
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Calder’s tapestries – the South American versions
01 April 2024Alexander Calder (1898-1976) first produced designs for tapestries made at the Aubusson factory in the early 1960s.
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Ann and Gordon Getty lots: all gone, including the kitchen sink
01 April 2024Doulton washroom elements provide surprise as final items from extensive collection come to auction
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Trend setters: Are interior design influencers all hype or helping the market?
18 March 2024Are influencers driving this market or is it just hype? We talk to dealers to find out what is really in demand and why.
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Decorative textiles to brighten the home
18 March 2024There have been various trends around decorative textiles recently, including a move to curtains from blinds, as well as a desire for wall hangings, rugs and bed covers – any soft furnishing fabric to brighten up the home.
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