» 1940s http://nothing-is-new.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BLACK MTN http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/12/20/black-mtn/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/12/20/black-mtn/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:06:38 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8280

Work hard, study hard, weave hard, frolic hard at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina. via North Carolina State Archives

 

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Yesterday I spotted these Dorothy Liebes sample weavings via I’m Revolting, which lead me to the Design Center of Philadelphia tumblr. Textile swatch galore.

1. Dorothy Liebes. Rigid weft sample. 1950s. Wood and novelty yarns.
2. Dorothy Liebes. Rigid weft sample. 1950s. Wood and novelty yarns.
3-4. Geometric print on silk in 4 colorways. Unknown manufacturer. 1930s-1940s.
5. Vase print on silk in 3 colorways. Unknown manufacturer. 1930s-1940s.

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Lion rugs & little girls. Judy Kepes in her nursery, 1949.
Daughter to designers, Juliet and Gyorgy.
See more pics of their wild Cape Cod nursery via LIFE.

 

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Skulls & feathers, togethers.
First made in Virgina by Pamunkey tribe.
Second and third made in Peru with parrot feathers.

via Smithsonian

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A fireman’s wife, dogs, and boys. Lovely photographs taped to the pages of Honoré’s notebooks and used for reference in her paintings. Archives of American Art presents a tiny exhibition titled, Little Pictures, Big Lives—now on view in D.C. or via Flickr. See all HDS photographs featured in the exhibition here.

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The Katherine Pettit Book of Vegetable Dyes, learn how here.
The handwoven, vegetable dyed throw is by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner, made in the 1930s. Katherine Pettit taught her how to dye at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky.

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