Historical Textile Designs

Intricate textile patterns featuring motifs of animals, foliage, and floral elements in rich colors, including purplish-gray and gold accents.

Design for a Book Cover, Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863-1961, Brush and gouache, silver paint on paper, On green ground, waves and swirls in green around a silver painted fish., USA, ca. 1891, graphic design, Drawing, Drawing

Textile, Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: lampas, 4 harness broken twill plus 1/3 twill, Purplish-gray ground with design entirely in gold. Pattern arranged in offset horizontal rows. Paired hound attacking goose separated by broad curving branches and palm leaves; small blossoms in interspaces., Possibly Lucca, Italy, 14th-15th century, woven textiles, Textile

Drawing, Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"; Designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; brush and gouache on glazed tracing paper; 12.3 × 5.8 cm (4 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.)

Design for a Book Cover, Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863-1961, Brush and gouache, silver paint on paper, On green ground, waves and swirls in green around a silver painted fish., USA, ca. 1891, graphic design, Drawing, Drawing

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Textile, Pounced, graphite, brush and slight greenish watercolor, brush and red-brown paint on paper, Recto: A right bottom corner is shown. A red field shows stripes at the edges which are decorated with rows of motifs: a heart palmette standing puon a circumscribed palmette. A square containing a rosette is in the corner. Outside, a border with curbs., France, 1825-1850, Drawing, Drawing

Two vignettes with a bird of prey staring at the sun, Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1903 - 1924 print In the corners of the vignettes the capital letters B, V, H, I, an abbreviation for the Bureau for Trade Influencations. At the upper vignette, the text 'ick Waac' is stated with the bird, with the lower vignette the text 'ick waec'. paper predatory birds. sun as celestial body

Ornament, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), 1884 - 1952 drawing Decorative design for a card, possibly a menu. paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush ornaments ~ art

Stained glass - il. to the poem "Before stained glass" and "Joyful cemetery"; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); 1914 (1914-00-00-1914-00-00);

Bedcover, Medium: cotton Technique: embroidered on plain weave, 'Candlewick' bedcover of cotton muslin embroidered in knotted stitches in cotton. Bordered on three sides with off-white cotton fringe., USA, early 19th century, embroidery & stitching, Bedcover

Sievers Carl (1834-1891), decoration studies (1858): Fries. Pencil watercolored on paper, 33.5 x 25 cm (including scan edges) Sievers Carl (1834-1891): Dekorationsstudien

Fragment (Japan)

Border tile, flower decoration in blue, yellow and green, upper and lower edge blue and yellow, border tile wall tile tile sculpture ceramics pottery glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Border tiles fragment flower decoration in blue yellow and green top and bottom edge blue and yellow.

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the 'Fabrique de St. Ruf', Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, Brush and gouache on glazed tracing paper, Rising undulating stem from which kinds of cornucopias branch off, alternately toward right and left, and from which five lobed leaves emerge., France, 1805-1815, Drawing, Drawing

Rouvenat, Léon (1809-1874). Bracelet. Graphite pencil, ink, watercolor wash and white gouache enhancement on tray paper glued on paper. S.D. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris

Medieval ornament

Stained glass - il. to the poem "Before stained glass" and "Joyful cemetery"; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); 1914 (1914-00-00-1914-00-00);

Fragment (Japan)

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th-19th century. Silk. Textiles-Woven

Chinese ornament

Pompeian ornament

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Fighting animals. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: c. 1700. Place: Kotah. Measurements: h 204 mm × w 148 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Valentine, Embossed cut paper, with silk, velvet, and satin additions, Within an embossed cut-paper frame with floral decorations is a circular peep-hole, covered by silk gauze, through which two birds in gilt are seen against a blue ground. Velvet cording and flowers of shirred silk around edges, and cupids at top of embossed gilt paper., Germany, ca. 1850, Greeting card, Greeting card

Drawing, Designs for Woven Paisley; brush and orange-pink, yellow gouache, graphite on brown oiled translucent paper; 21.2 × 16.2 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

Front and back of the medal of the Academy of Drawing in Amsterdam, Harmanus Vinkeles, After Jacobus Buys, 1765 - 1800 print Drawing, depicted as a woman with flame on head, sits with pen and drawing board in hands on a statue that she measures with a passer in her eye, inside in the kin. Reverse: inscription within Lauwerkrans and Dischanging. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving memorial medal. compasses. symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ drawing. honouring the artist with laurel wreath (+ variant)

Band with a line motif ..

Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869), Villa, Cairo. () (Without Dat.): Ceiling design cassette ceiling, calculations on the back of the cardboard. Pencil on transparent on the box, 29.3 x 21.3 cm (including scan edges) Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869): Villa, Kairo ()

Textile with Brocade 14th century Italian. Textile with Brocade 463232

Decorative panel, Block-printed paper, wood support, Vertical strip mounted in three separate sections. Approximation to Louis XVI style. Pilaster in blue and gray, with arabesques and a pink medallion in simulated relief, and portions of flanking panels in neutral yellow., From catalog card: Framed. Lower right corner of lowest section is missing., England, ca. 1860, Wallcoverings, Decorative panel

MH McDowell, Design on Door of Seth Thomas Clock, 1936 Design on Door of Seth Thomas Clock

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-4-30

Piece 18th century Japan. Piece 71801

Three segments of a vase painted with stylized coreopsis, Anatole-Alexis Fournier, 1897 Sèvres paper. watercolor (paint). ink pen flowers ~ ornament

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card, Stencil-colored woodblock print, Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards., Florence, Italy, 17th century, Playing card, Playing card

Corner Design for Mosaic Floor, Frederick Krieg, American, b. Germany 1852-1932, R.C. Fisher and Co., New York, New York, USA, Brush and pink wash, pen and black ink, graphite on white wove paper, Corner border of undulating ribbon and floral rinceaux., USA, ca. 1900, tiles, Drawing, Drawing

Drawing, Design for an Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"; Designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; brush and orange, yellow gouache on glazed tracing paper; 16.7 × 24.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Pierced Metal Screen from Confessional. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 28.1 x 22.9 cm (11 1/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 8 1/2"wide x 12 1/2"high. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Geoffrey Holt.

Ralph N Morgan, Jacquard Coverlet (Detail), c 1941 Jacquard Coverlet (Detail)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898). Naked woman standing from the front. Blood on beige paper. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 78969-9 Long hair, standing, drawing, naked woman, tile put, female naked, nudite, grid, blood, face view, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Ornamentation and Crowned Lion (Nobel), Bernard Willem Wierink, 1910 print paper fable of Reynard the Fox

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915, French, Relief Design of an Abstract Female Figure, between 1910 and 1915. Brushed black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card, Stencil-colored woodblock print, Part of a set of Italian Minchiate playing cards., Florence, Italy, 17th century, Playing card, Playing card

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 65973

Woodcut by Albrecht Dürer after 1507 depicting a decorative knot with a heart-shaped shield, emphasizing design and ornamental lines.

Jacobsthal Johann Eduard (1839-1902), grammar of the ornaments (without dat.): Moorish surface tapes, issue 3. Sheet 2 .. lithography on paper, 72.2 x 56.4 cm (incl. Scan edges) Jacobsthal Johann Eduard (1839-1902): Grammatik der Ornamente

Jacquard Coverlet (Detail). Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 33.6 x 23.9 cm (13 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ralph N. Morgan.

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-4-25

Fragment Made 501 CE-700 CE Egypt. Silk, weft-float faced complementary weft twill weave with inner warps .

Horse. Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916). Woodcut; sheet: 15 x 16.3 cm (5 7/8 x 6 7/16 in.); image: 6 x 8 cm (2 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.).

Greek Ornament

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), pine cone (main title), 1900 ,. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Floral field and border, White on glazed paper, France, 1780-1815, textile designs, Drawing, Drawing

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), insect hat ePingle (main title), 1900. Graphite, ink and gouache on transparent rives vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Piece 18th century Japan. Piece 71560

Framed crewel embroidered panel (18th century) , Embroidery. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Design for a book bridge for: P.J. Ravesteijn, Gedenkboek Hilversum 1424-1924, 1924, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), 1924 drawing Coat of arms of Hilversum with leaf ornaments. paper. India ink (ink). deck paint. pencil pen / brush coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ city; municipal). foliage, tendrils, branches ~ ornament

Design for a Valance with Thin Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and a Lyre Inside an Ornamental Frame with Scrolling Motifs Presenting Two Different Variations for the Design 1870-1900 () Anonymous, French, 19th century Rectangular sheet of paper with a design for a valance from the second half of the nineteenth century, inspired on the style of Louis XVI, forming part of the Neo-Classical Revival that took place in France and Britain from the 1850s on. The style was part of the Classical and Renaissance Revival that took place from about 1850, where the interest on the art and architecture from Ancient Rome and the 15th and 16th centuries was propelled by archaeological discoveries in Greece, Italy and Egypt. Through this style, Classical and Renaissance pieces of art and design were reinterpreted in a variety of forms and motifs, and classical figures, scrolling decorations, strapwork, and grotesques and moresques, became central element in design. This Revival was characterized by t

The Fourth Knot. Albrecht Dürer; German, 1471-1528. Date: 1507. Dimensions: 270 × 211 mm (image); 285 × 227 mm (sheet). Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Drawing, Textile Design: Harlem; Designed by Valentine Kovaćić (Austrian, b. 1895, active early 20th century); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on paper; 6.5 x 20 cm (2 9/16 x 7 7/8 in.) Mat: 32.5 x 46 cm (12 13/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

Drawing, Corner Design for Mosaic Floor; USA; brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on paper

George Stonehill, Sperry Gardens, c 1936 Sperry Gardens

Elizabethan ornament

Design for an ornament with the initials HS. Draughtsman: Mathieu Lauweriks. Dating: 1874 - 1932. Measurements: h 86 mm × w 81 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Woodcut on pear wood depicting a geometric network of a flattened cube, created after 1538.

German 16th Century, Playing Card Playing Card

Sidewall (USA); Manufactured by M.H. Birge & Sons Co. (United States); block-printed, embossed; 49.5 x 54.5 cm (19 1/2 x 21 7/16 in.)

Francis Law Durand, Latch Plate, c 1936 Latch Plate

Poelzig Hans (1869-1936), Reichs-Ehrenhain, Bad Berka (1932): Collection at the entrance gate, floor plan, view 1: 500. Colored pencil over a break on the box, 61.1 x 54.3 cm (including scan edges)

Design for a wrap of a program book. Leaf 38 Recto from a sketchbook with 72 sheets.

Kammarmer in pink, blue and yellow with inscription, anonymous, 1700 - 1850 marbled paper Hemmer in pink, blue and yellow. Used as a cover with (on verso) inscription in pen: 'Cover of paper of 1650'. paper. paint (coating) combed marbled paper

Piece 17th century Japan. Piece 71761

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), brooch sheets (main title), 1905. Graphite on transparent vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Klingholz Fritz (1861-1921), floral ornaments (without date): View. Pencil watercolored, gold heighted on paper, 28.6 x 23.3 cm (including scan edges) Klingholz Fritz (1861-1921): Florale Ornamente

Drawing, Design a Handle; Italy; pen and ink, brush and wash on paper

Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: warp-printed cut velvet, Narrow vertical rectangle with a red and brown central rosette and narrow stems of green laurel leaves on a black ground., France, late 18th-early 19th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

Design for a vignette Piae Uxoris Animae. Draughtsman: Richard Roland Holst. Dating: 1878 - 1938. Measurements: h 292 mm × w 173 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Capital Letter P James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). , 1886-1894. Ink on paper mounted on board, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. (11.5 x 11.8 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Egyptian 2nd Century, Portrait of a Woman, 2nd century Portrait of a Woman

Ex Libris AF Armin von Foelkersam; Gruenewaldt, Moritz von (1870-1933); 1899 (1899-00-00-1899-00-00);Foelkersam (coat of arms), Foelkersam, Armin von (1861-1917), Foelkersam, Armin von (1861-1917)-exlibris, jugendstil, partage plus, German graphics, Latvian graphics, modernism (style), monograms, German (culture), Secession (style), Latvian (culture)

Wallpaper Design, Brush and gouache, graphite on white paper, A dado is shown at the bottom, and a high entablature on top. The panel is divided into narrow green and wide lilac vertical stripes. Alternative suggestions are made for their decorations in the lower and in the upper part of the design; rows of alternate leaves and bunches of grapes, and row of leaves, respectively, for the narrow stripes; lozenges of a richer design between bunches of boughs, respectively, for the broad stripes. A leaf garland, the upper part of which has a black background, is show on top., Austria, 1840-60, wallpaper designs, Drawing, Drawing

Design for poster for Delftsche Sla oil, Reijer Stolk, 1906 - 1945 poster Composition with green lines and four weapons from the Nederlandsche Oliefabriek. paper. watercolor (paint) oils and vegetable fats

Celtic ornament

Drawing, Caricature of a Man; Harriet Blackstone (American, 1864 - 1939); USA; black pastel crayon on paper; 25.5 × 17.5 cm (10 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Regensburg. Brick floor ; verso: sketches of weapons and of a mounted warrior blowing a horn. Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), draughtsman, cartoonist

Design for room decoration with vertical two panels, the bottom with a ruin landscape in a lying oval. Draughtsman: Abraham Meertens. Dating: 1767 - 1823. Measurements: h 380 mm × w 256 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Design for window in the Noordertransept in the Dom in Utrecht, c. 1934 drawing cardboard. chalk brush

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A tankard

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67633

Circle filling with angel; F Vie Recueil de Vases, d'Orgenuwerens & the figures, Tirées de l'Antique. A circle filling with an angel, braid, floral motifs and masks. In the corners of vases and medus chirts with caduceus.

Figures 1828-1880 England. Sketchbook . Charles George Lewis

Frieze, Block printed and flocked paper, Acanthus and bead moldings at top. Below, a serpentine band of grape leaves in green flock., England, ca. 1830, Wallcoverings, Frieze

Arabian ornament

Fragment. Coptic; Egypt. Date: 401 AD-600 AD. Dimensions: 25.5 × 26 cm (10 × 10 1/8 in.). Linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile and insets of slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric and supplementary wrapping weft details. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Drawing, Design for a Woven Motif of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished; Designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; incised lines, brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper pasted on paper; 16.5 × 12.3 cm (6 1/2 × 4 13/16 in.)

Design for a link in a necklace. Draughtsman: Mathieu Lauweriks. Dating: 1874 - 1932. Measurements: h 137 mm × w 127 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Girdle fragment, Medium: cotton, metal Technique: embroidered, Piece cut from the end of girdle. Embroidery in conventionalized design based on diagonal lines and squares., Balkans, 19th century, embroidery & stitching, Girdle fragment

Decorated initial A. Draughtsman: Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. Dating: 1874 - 1945. Measurements: h 264 mm × w 150 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Print, Rosette Design for a Ceiling; Designed by Richard de Lalonde (French, active 1780-96); Print Maker: Augustin Nicolas Foin (French, 1726-c. 1759); Published by Jacques-François Chéreau (French, 1742 - 1794); France; etching on off-white laid paper

Banknote motif: rounded ornamental lathe work design witha wavy edge. Artist: Associated with Cyrus Durand (American, 1787-1868). Dimensions: sheet: 2 15/16 x 2 5/16 in. (7.5 x 5.8 cm). Printer: Printed by A. B. & C. Durand & Company (American, active 1824-27); Printed by Durand, Perkins, and Company (New York). Date: ca. 1824-42. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), Monogram: L. S. A. (Main title), 1898. Graphite and Gouache on transparent vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

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