[HNW] designs printed directly on material

[Johnna Holloway]

Might also be in English embroideries of the sixteenth and seventeeth  
centuries:
  By Mary M. Brooks. I'll see if I have time tomorrow to check this out.

I have to research a couple of other things tonight for other lists.

Too many questions and far too little time this week.

I did place the new book on order.

Johnnae

On May 11, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Susan B. Farmer wrote:

> On 5/11/2011 4:28 PM, Liz H. wrote:
>> I'm fairly sure I've come across a reference to or picture of a  
>> cloth printed pattern in the 1600s before.  Not common, but some  
>> printers were experimenting with selling it, promoting that one  
>> didn't have to  transfer the pattern from paper.
>
> There's some unstitched sleeves at the V&A that I thought were  
> printed.  Hang on, let me go check
>
> I was thinking that it was this
> http://images.vam.ac.uk/item/O317153/panel-of-jacket/
> but they say it was done with ink.  I was thinking the ones that I  
> saw said that they'd been printed off a copper engraving plate.  If  
> I'm right (and not completely delusional) the picture is in "'Twixt  
> Art and Nature"
>
> Susan/ Jerusha