Floral Textiles of the 18th-19th Century

A collection of floral-patterned textiles featuring intricate designs in soft colors. Textiles include silk and paper prints with nature-inspired motifs.

Panel, Medium: silk Technique: printed and painted on twill weave, Polychrome floral border on three sides and a basket of flowers in the center., France, 18th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Panel

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th-19th century. Silk. Edo (1615-1868). Textiles-Woven

Leaf with spreading pattern of tendrils with flowers and fruits, anonymous, 1700 - 1850 Leaf with spreading pattern of tendrils with flowers and fruits a point stock, block prints visible. Used as a cover. paper. block printing (relief printing process) ornament derived from plant forms

George Loughridge, Printed Textile, c 1936 Printed Textile

Leaf with large flowers and leaves, anonymous, 1700 - 1850 Leaf with large flowers and leaves. Left and right identical halves. paper. block printing (relief printing process) ornament derived from plant forms

Panel, Medium: silk Technique: printed and painted on twill weave, Polychrome floral border on three sides and a basket of flowers in the center., France, 18th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Panel

Mise-en-carte (Point-paper) Made 1760-1790 France. Ink and gouache on hand drawn graph paper . Veret (Papermaker)

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: roller and block printed, Half-drop repeat of a group of very full blossoms superimposed on a scrolling vine on a brown ground., USA, 1830-1850, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 65840

Leaf with spreading pattern of leaves with flowers and fruits, anonymous, 1750 - 1900 Leaf with spreading pattern of leaves with flowers and fruits and bred ranks. Half of a cover. paper. block printing (relief printing process) ornament derived from plant forms

Floral print 1799 Hartmann et Fils. Floral print. French, Munster. 1799. Cotton. Textiles-Printed

Fragment; silk

Leaf with job pattern of saved leaf motif, anonymous, 1700 - 1850 Leaf with job pattern of saved alternating leaf and floral pattern. paper. block printing (relief printing process) ornament derived from plant forms

Wallpaper. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 29.2 x 22.4 cm (11 1/2 x 8 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 6 1/4" repeat. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.

Curtain. Culture: Italian, Sardinia. Dimensions: 70 × 41 in. (177.8 × 104.1 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Leaf with spreading pattern of flowers, anonymous, c. 1725 - c. 1765 Leaf with spreading pattern of flowers. Used as a cover for a publication from 1745. paper. block printing (relief printing process) ornament derived from plant forms

Arras. unknown, author

Sidewall (USA); machine-printed with engraved rollers; 28 x 56 cm (11 x 22 1/16 in.)

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th-19th century. Silk. Edo period (1615-1868). Textiles-Woven

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: relief-printed cotton, Block printed cotton, red ground, small scale Chinoiserie design; uneven medallion frames with buildings center; vase with flowers. Blue, brown, and red; yellow has faded out., England or USA, 1800-1830, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Mise-en-carte (Point-paper). France, Lyon. Date: 1760-1790. Dimensions: 45.45 × 55.9 cm (17 7/8 × 22 in.). Ink and gouache on hand drawn graph paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Véret.

Fragment Made 1501-1600 Spain. linen, embroidered with silk .

Windrush (Panel). Designed by William Morris (English, 1834-1896); Produced by Morris & Company, Decorators Ltd., 1905-1925, formerly Morris & Company, 1875-1905; Woven and printed at Merton Abbey Works; England, Surrey, Wimbledon. Date: 1917-1925. Dimensions: 66 x 97.1 cm (26 x 38 1/4 in.)Repeat: 57.1 x 44.5 cm (22 3/8 x 17 1/2 in.). Cotton, plain weave; block printed. Origin: London. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Ceiling paper, Janeway & Co. Inc., New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1848 - 1914, Machine-printed paper, liquid mica, Floral and foliate scrolls with interspersed fleurons. Cream ground. Printed in light green, pink, gold mica and white mica. (Gold mica has green spots.), New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 1905-1915, Wallcoverings, Ceiling paper

Fragment (Japan)

Textile fragments, Medium: silk Technique: painted on plain weave, Six fragments of yellow silk painted in polychrome tempera. Design shows sprays of roses, some held in place by ribbons connected with another spray., China, 18th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile fragments

Textile (France); silk

Fragment from Book of Textiles, 1700s. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Satin ground; silk diasper weave; overall: 10.5 x 23.6 cm (4 1/8 x 9 5/16 in.).

Fragment. Italy. Date: 1350-1400. Dimensions: 34.3 x 23.7 cm (13 1/2 x 9 3/8 in.)Repeat: 30.2 x 14.2 cm (11 7/8 x 5 5/8 in.). Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings. Origin: Lucca. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Mise-en-carte (Point-paper). Designed by Germain Frères; France, Lyon. Date: 1760-1790. Dimensions: 45.1 × 55.6 cm (17 3/4 × 21 7/8 in.). Ink and gouache on hand drawn graph paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Fragment, Medium: silk; tempera Technique: painted on plain weave, Three fragments of white silk grosgrain with polychrome tempera design alternating large-scale floral sprays and long delicate trailing flowering vines., China, 18th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

Fables of La Fontaine (Furnishing Fabric) Made 1820-1830 Rouen. Cotton, plain weave; engraved roller printed . Alexander Buquet (Designer)

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th-19th century. Silk. Edo period (1615-1868). Textiles-Woven

Curtain panel, Medium: silk Technique: printed and painted on plain weave, taffeta, Allover floral design in polychrome on a natural-colored ground., China, 19th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Curtain panel

Embroidered Border, 1500s-1600s. Italy, 16th-17th century. Embroidery; silk on linen; overall: 11.8 x 29.2 cm (4 5/8 x 11 1/2 in.).

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave, Length of printed cotton with design in off-set repeat of mounds of flowers in bright colors on an undyed ground., 1816, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Textile, Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in stem, herringbone, satin and French knot stitches on plain weave, Unbleached heavy cotton, embroidered in colored silk floss with fantastic birds, trees, animals, and medallions., Greece, 19th century, embroidery & stitching, Textile

Book cover with overall floral and dot pattern 19th century Anonymous. Book cover with overall floral and dot pattern. Anonymous , 19th century. 19th century. Relief print (wood or metal). Prints

Mise-en-carte (Point-paper) Made 1760-1769 France. Designs for silk weaving were drawn by professional artists who had often trained in flower painting, a skill that could be deployed for the decoration of objects besides textiles. The designs were painted on the point paper grid, which then served as a guide to the person mounting the threads on the loom. The artistsí names do not appear on these technical drawings; only the companies that commissioned the designs and wove the silk are identified.. Opaque watercolor over etching in black ink on cream laid paper

Sidewall Sample; machine-printed on paper; 22.5 x 22.5 cm (8 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Design for a cover for a publication by Honoré Daumier and Erich Klossowski (Munich 1908), Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874 - 1945 drawing paper. pencil brush decoration of printed matter. book-cover, binding

Drawing, Floral design for printed textiles; Designed by Louis-Albert DuBois (Swiss, 1752-1818); France; brush and gouache, graphite on white wove paper; Sheet: 12.5 x 17.4 cm (4 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.) Image: 11 x 15.8 cm (4 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Drawing, Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"; Designed by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper; 21 × 32.3 cm (8 1/4 × 12 11/16 in.)

Sidewall - fragment, Machine-printed on paper, Red and white flowers and leaves on tan. Aesthetic style floral design., 1870-90, Wallcoverings, Sidewall - fragment

Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: compound weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade), White satin ground with design of a branch with a cluster of fruit, worked partly in continuous supplementary wefts of green and rose, and partly in discontinuous supplementary wefts of gray silk., late 18th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Les Quatre Éléments (The Four Elements) (Furnishing Fabric). Probably after Jean Jacques Lagrenée le Jeune (French, 1739-1821) from engravings by Charles Dupuis (French, 1685-1742) and Louis Desplaces (French, 1682-1739) after Louis de Boullongne le Jeune (French, 1654-1733); Manufactured by Oberkampf Manufactory (French, 1738-1815); France, Jouy-en-Josas. Date: 1780-1790. Dimensions: 64 × 68.3 cm (25 1/4 × 26 7/8 in.). Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece 67491

Border (France); block-printed on paper; 53 x 20 cm (20 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Frieze (USA); Manufactured by Maxwell & Co., S.A. (United States); machine-printed paper; 92 x 49.5 cm (36 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)

Sidewall; block-printed and flocked; 98.5 x 57 cm (38 3/4 x 22 7/16 in.)

Fragment, Medium: pineapple fiber (warp); silk (weft); tempera Technique: printed and painted on gauze, Cream-colored ground with slender intersecting serpentine stems and blossoms of various types and colors, some tied with ribbons in red, dark pink, green, blue, brown, purple, yellow, gray and iridescent paint., China, late 18th-early 19th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

Fragment; silk

Piece 18th-19th century Japan. Piece. Japan. 18th-19th century. Silk. Edo (1615-1868). Textiles-Woven

Curtain Panel (China); silk

Piece early 19th century British. Piece. British. early 19th century. Cotton. Textiles-Printed

Textile, Medium: silk Technique: supplementary warp pile velvet, cut and uncut, Large-scale symmetrical pattern with a central urn of heavy naturalistic flowers flanked by addorsed couchant sphinxes on an elaborate arabesqued support from which fringed loops hang. An elaborate canopy suspended from this shelters addorsed turbaned caryatids flanking a cartouche. In light and dark crimson shaded to suggest dimensionality, in cut and uncut velvet on beige satin ground., France, 1850-1900, woven textiles, Textile

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: copperplate printed, Straight repeat containing small landscape vignettes in which children play various games. The scenes are tied together by garlands of flowers. The games being played are: battledore, shuttlecock, kite flying, marbles, cards, playing of fife and drum, dart blowing, and a boy being pulled onto a wagon., England, ca. 1790, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Sidewall, Robert Graves Co., New York, New York, Machine-printed, Landscape vignettes visible through tree trunks and foliage, printed in shades of gray, red and blue-green., USA, 1900-1920, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Panel Made 1750-1800 France .

Fragment (France); silk

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave using seven colors, Pheasant on a branch in half-drop repeat., England, ca. 1810, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Drawing, Design for a Woven Fabric, Fragment; France; brush and white gouache on oily tracing paper; 48.2 × 42 cm (19 in. × 16 9/16 in.)

Pagoda 18th century Nixon & Co.. Pagoda 229305

Mise-en-carte (Point-paper) Made 1760-1790 France. Ink and gouache on hand drawn graph paper .

Sidewall, Block printed on handmade paper, ungrounded, Design of flowers, foliage, and birds, printed in white, green and brown on gray background., USA, 1820-30, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Sidewall, Ferrouillat, Block-printed on handmade paper, Vertical rectangle of joined sheets of paper. Alternating medallion in grisaille of a woman standing with a sacrificial goat at an altar, and flower baskets from which is draped a wide ribbon. Above and below, large basket of flowers. Joining the various units of the design are arabesques of ribbon bows, scrolls, flower garlands and butterflies., Lyon, France, ca. 1795, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Curtain, Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidery and couching, Large-scale design of flowering rinceaux with perching birds. White background and couching technique. For other component of 1944-56-6-a,b see -b, which is deaccessioned., Italy, 17th century, embroidery & stitching, Curtain

Mise-en-carte (Point-paper). Designed by L. Galy Gallien et Compe (1761-1770); France. Date: 1764. Dimensions: 42.9 × 53.05 cm (16 7/8 × 20 7/8 in.). Ink and gouache on hand drawn graph paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: L. Galy Gallien et Compe.

Fragment (Japan)

Fragment, 1800s. China, 19th century. Silk; overall: 47 x 21.6 cm (18 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.).

Fragment, Medium: cotton Technique: painted on plain weave, Fragment of tightly spun, loosely woven cotton plain weave with flowering boughs drawn in aubergine and crudely colored with red and deep blue., India, 14th-16th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

Panel Made 1725-1775 France. Silk, damask weave with areas of brocading in silk and gilt strip wound around a silk fiber core .

Sampler, Marya Juapuyna Lacunza, Medium: linen, silk Technique: embroidery (for pattern only), Two peacocks facing a tree. Scene framed by an arch of roses growing from urns. Narrow double-edge sawtooth band at outer edges to frame the entire scene. Signed: 'LOYZO MARYA JUAPUYNA LACUNZA.' (Made by Maria Juapuyna Lacunza), Mexico, 18th or 19th century, embroidery & stitching, Sampler

Sidewall, Block printed on handmade paper, Vining floral, with large red roses and assorted other flowers. Printed on dark brown ground., France, ca. 1800, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Collage of expressed prints stuck on album leaf of blue paper. One of seventeen collages from folder.

Fragment, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave; glazed, Two leopards under a tree in half-drop repeat. Two browns, yellow and blue., England, ca. 1815, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

Textile, Medium: cotton Technique: engraved roller printed on plain weave, Half dropped repeat of a thorny vine twinning around Gothic style towers., England, 1840s, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

Chintz Bedspread. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 54 x 71 cm (21 1/4 x 27 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 80" long; 76" wide. Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Julius Mihalik.

Fragment Made 1800-1899 Japan. Compound twill and silk .

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the 'Fabrique de St. Ruf', Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper pasted on paper, Undulating flower boughs stand in a row over a border composed of scrolls with pomegranates and leaves; forked leaves are shown in the wedges., France, 1805-1815, Drawing, Drawing

Fragment, Medium: silk, paper with applied gold foil Technique: plain compound twill, Tan silk ground with design of flowering oxalis plants and bamboo foliage in green and white silks and gold paper., Japan, late 19th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Fragment, Medium: silk Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft patterning (brocade), Blue and white textile fragment made of two mirrored pieces. Design showing exotic birds flanking an urn and eating from a fruit vine. A border design at each selvage., possibly France, possibly Italy, 18th century, woven textiles, Fragment

Sampler, Martha Savage, Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: counted and uncounted stitches; cross, satin, eyelet, knots and couching stitches on plain weave foundation; interlacing, Within an angularly curving border of carnations, bands of text and pattern, women in ball gowns embroidered in relief, and an oak tree with two stags, a snail and a caterpillar. At the bottom, the inscription 'Martha Savage Her Work 1769' and the initials A.S. between the ladies, with a verse:, 'All you my frinds (sic) who now expect to see a piece of work thus performed by me. Cast not a smile upon my small endeavor. I'll strive to mend and be obedient ever.', 'See now the lillies flourish white and fair, see now the ravens fed from heaven are, The neer distrust thy God for cloth and bread whilst lillies flourish and the raven's fed.', England, 1769, embroidery & stitching, Sampler

Turkish scenes, Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave, Two scenes illustrating a Turkish theme, each containing three people. The scenes are set within a lattice of exotic foliage., Alsace, France, ca. 1840, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile, Textile

Sidewall, Block-printed on paper, Grisaille roses in random arrangement on greenish-gray moire ground., France, ca. 1880, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Altar frontal, Medium: silk, polychrome paint Technique: painted on twill weave, The Madonna surrounded by stars, sprays of flowers, and angels within a scrolling floral border. The silk is fringed at the sides., Spain, 18th-19th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Altar frontal

Sidewall (USA); block-printed paper, embossed; 119.5 x 50 cm (47 1/16 x 19 11/16 in.)

Two pieces 18th century French. Two pieces 220185

Fragment (Japan)

L'Agreable lecon ou L'Art d'Amier, Petitpierre Freres, Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave, Scenes of love: a shepherd teaching a shepherdess to play a pipe next to t lion topped plinth inscribed 'L'AGREABLE LECON', one woman instructing another woman following a text in a book called 'L'ART D'AIMER' held up by Cupid, Cupid pointing out a pair of mating birds to a woman sketching, a child playing the bagpipes to animals, children catching eels, and classical ruins. In red on white., Nantes, France, 1785-90, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Panel, Panel

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

Printed Textiles. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 40.8 x 53.4 cm (16 1/16 x 21 in.) Original IAD Object: 23" long; 14" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jenny Almgren.

Sheet with an overall floral pattern ca. 1825 Anonymous. Sheet with an overall floral pattern. Anonymous , Italian, 19th century. ca. 1825. Relief print (wood or metal). Prints

Textile Design (East Indian style), 18th century, Unknown American, 20th century, 16 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (42.55 x 31.75 cm) (image, irregular), Watercolor and gouache, England (), 18th century

Piece 1715-20 Italian, Venice Panels such as thiswith its extraordinary patterns in long repeatswere called "bizarre" by the Danish scholar Slomann, who believed they were made in India. Most scholars consider them an exotic phase in the history of European silk weaving.. Piece 227378

Piece. Culture: British. Dimensions: L. 25 x W. 42 inches (loom width)63.5 x 106.7 cm. Date: ca. 1830. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sidewall (England or United States); machine-printed with oil-based color; 36 x 23 cm (14 3/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

Sleeve with birds in blossoming bushes, 1700s. Iran. Taqueté: silk and gilt-metal thread; overall: 19.7 x 52.1 cm (7 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.).

Cyclamen persicum plant as motif in designs for tapestry, fabric and wallpaper. Lithograph by Anna Martin with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grasset's Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897. Grasset (1841-1917) was a Swiss artist whose innovative designs inspired the art nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century.

Textile, Medium: silk Technique: warp printed plain weave, Long panel with chiné warp blazes forming large-scale symmetric vertical repeat of floral forms in scalloped continuous ogival framework in shades of green, blue, pink and brown on undyed silk ground. Two narrow plain selvedges., Palma, Spain, late 18th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile

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