As we close out another year, we'd like to share some holiday nostalgia from our collection of handkerchiefs. These hankies were donated by Pamela Moses, who, along with her daughter Mary Beth Handler, collected hundreds of handkerchiefs over
print design
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Before computer-aided design, the work of the textile print designer was all done by hand. Designs intended for repeating patterns were hand-sketched and painted. This age of pre-digital textile design is documented in the Point Papers
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Did you know that as part of our collection we hold tens of thousands of fabric swatches dating back to the seventeenth century? Well, now you can check out some of these swatches on our new and improved website Tapestry.
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Tammis Keefe, one of the great names of handkerchief and textile design, was born in 1913 in California. Initially studying higher mathematics at Los Angeles Community College, she decided to change her major to painting at the Chouinard
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Hello, it’s Gabby again. I wanted to share with everyone a collection I worked with in the spring semester of my freshman year. I was given a box full of objects created by the designer Frankie Welch. I had never heard of her, so I decided to
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A trove of original designs by Edna Leonhardt, the first woman in North America to own her own textile design firm, is one of the many treasures in our Paul J. Gutman Library.
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