Damascus gave the world damask - the woven reversal of figure and ground that made medieval traders stop their caravans and pay whatever was asked
The ground and the figure have exchanged places: now the deer and the flowering vines and the Javanese mythological animals move through Bali Blue in white
SKU: 306288FM Color: Custom Silver Metallic / New Blue on Tint (Lot: OW A) Width: 54" Repeat: 27" Content: 55% Linen 45% Cotton Origin: Handprinted in the USA on ground woven in Belgium
the same memory of light on dyed cloth
The way the first screen was cut
Quadrille Fabric: Les Enfants Engraving - Custom Rose on Tinted Belgian Linen / Cotton raspberry Damascus gave the world damaskQuadrille Fabric: Les Enfants Engraving Custom Rose on Tinted Belgian Linen Cotton This is not nursery fabric. Yes, there are children in it. Yes, they are French. Yes, they are doing whatever French children did in the 18th century when someone decided to engrave them climbing things, probably, bothering goats, being allegorical. But toile has never been about the subject matter. Toile is about the discipline of a single color doing all the work. No