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Textile design and pottery Mary Lillian White later Mary Dening (22 January 1930 – 20 May 2020) was an English textile designer known for several iconic textile prints of the 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her designs were very popular and extensively copied in many 1950s homes, as well as in cabins aboard the RMS Queen Mary and at Heathrow Airport . [ 3 ]
Textile design is further broken down into three major disciplines: printed textile design, woven textile design, and mixed media textile design. Each uses different methods to produce a fabric for variable uses and markets. Textile design as an industry is involved in other disciplines such as fashion, interior design, and fine arts. [2] [3]
Marianne Straub was born in the village of Amriswil, Switzerland, the second of four daughters of the textile merchant Carl Straub and his wife Cécile Kappeler. [2] She had tuberculosis as a young child and spent over four years in a hospital ward, returning home at the age of eight. [2]
Textile designers are product, industrial or fashion designers specialized in the design of textiles. They differ from textile artists in designing for (mass) production. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Textile designers .
After graduation, she worked as a costume designer before moving to the U.S. in 1946, where she moved into textile design. [3] She was living with the Breuers when Hans Knoll saw her portfolio, he hired her as a textiles designer at his company, Knoll, where she began working under Marianne Strengell. In 1949, Haraszty was appointed director of ...
Louisa Pesel (1870–1947) was an English embroiderer, educator and textile collector. She was born in Bradford, and studied textile design at the National Art Training School, [1] causing her to become interested in decorative stitchery.
His first design was jasmine trail or jasmine trellis (1868–70), based on a similar wallpaper design he had made in 1862. [4] In the 1870s, he expanded his activity in woven furnishing textiles. In 1877, he brought a skilled French silk weaver, Jacques Bazin, from Lyon to London, rented a studio at Great Esmond Yard, and established Bazin and ...
Jack Lenor Larsen (August 5, 1927 – December 22, 2020) was an American textile designer, author, collector and promoter of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship. He was noted for bringing fabric patterns and textiles to go with modernist architecture and furnishings.