I bought the most amazing compendium of pornography today

[Ellen Forradalom]

That is, if you're a fabric whore like me.


Textile Designs, Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout and Period. 1,823 Illustrations in color. Susan Meller and Joost Elffers.
http://lookinside2-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leoBNTtEDQFYbm308T2rVGGV4uyaQ5UrGeQmbfSiS+lws1HxCMEz7a2M

[Snow]

1. Oh, man, my late mother-in-law would've loved that.....

she wrote a textile college textbook, maybe the only one in Korean.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Wow

That's an accomplishment.

[madrchsod]

3. i collect fabrics..

right now i`m into 50`s kitchen fabrics. i have other fabrics from the the early 1910 on up. i used to sell draperies and upholster furniture, so i can understand your fabric addition. the mart is like mecca to me....

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. I dream about early Soviet fabrics

I'd love to make a dress from a fabric with electrical wires and tractor motifs.

[madrchsod]

5. you could get by with

that in Chicago but probably no where else.

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. What a coincidence!

I live in Chicago.

[Melsky]

7. That's really cool

My goal when I was younger was to be a textile designer. I still think a lot of the motifs in my paintings would make good prints. Maybe someday!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of NYC

fabric heaven!

There is also this place in Chinatown/Tribeca that has vintage fabrics but I can't remember the name of it. It had some stuff like you described. And lots of art deco-y dress fabrics that Myrna Loy, greta Garbo, and other '30s screen sirens would have worn. Incredible.