Showcases a selection of pieces collected by architect Ignazio Vok (b. 1938). The late collector Ignazio Vok had a passion for excellence and all the publications include his personal commentary on each featured textile.
Die Vok Collection Anatolia präsentiert eine erlesene Sammlung von Kilims und Flachgeweben. Autor Ignazio Vok hat mit diesem Werk eine Hommage an die Kunst und Handwerkskunst Anatoliens geschaffen. Das Buch ist in deutscher Sprache verfasst und befindet sich in einem neuwertigen Zustand. Erleben Sie die Schönheit und Vielfalt dieser traditionellen Textilien durch die detaillierten Abbildungen und Beschreibungen
Love these designs from our ancestors! Also love all the regional differences.Found this at random on Twitter and just love how colorful and creative every stitch is!
Edited to leave out username due to xenophobia from original source.
the vintage dress i’m hand embroidering in between holiday commissions is coming along nicely 💘☁️ once i’m done filling in the heart i’ll be adding some detail to the handle & it’ll be done!
In Botiza women use pigments extracted from plants, flowers and bark to colour their wool. Preferably the pigments of summer flowers are used, because the spring-pigments contain to much water - Mick Palarczyk
As far as I know this "foresia" is not from a specific Thracian village, but rather a generic representation of the motif the various Thracian villages followed.
Note the bead choker that some Thracian villages produced.
Meet the sari weavers of Varanasi, whose nimble fingers and artistic vision keep alive an ancient craft that dates back to the 16th century. Here’s how they create exquisite works of art that reflect the beauty and culture of India.
Finished my first quilt! This was assembled via a bunch of purple scraps I had lying around. It’s not very big and not useful as a blanket, but it’s a learning experience!
King Letsie III and Queen Masenate of Lesotho at the Coronation of King Charles III
Queen Masenate is wearing a gown whose colour and print is reminiscent of shweshwe, a printed dyed cotton fabric, often using indigo blue, widely used for both traditional and fashionable dress in Lesotho and South Africa.
'The local name shweshwe is derived from the fabric's association with Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe I, also spelled "Moshweshwe". Moshoeshoe I was gifted with the fabric by French missionaries in the 1840s and subsequently popularised it.
It is also known as sejeremane or seshoeshoe in Sotho as well as terantala (derived from Afrikaans tarentaal), and ujamani in Xhosa, after 19th century German and Swiss settlers who imported the blaudruck ("blue print") fabric for their clothing and helped entrench it in South African and Basotho culture.' X