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and on the back cover….
“…these patterns offer such color combinations as a blue petaled flower with green leaves on a mustard background, a salmon-colored flower with robin’s-egg blue leaves on a beige field, and royal blue flowers with golden leaves on golden stems silhouetted in light blue-green on a deep blue-green field.”LikeLike
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re why the Art Nouveau line still works so well, read this William Morris essay on Textiles-
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Essays/TextilesLikeLike
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and another relevant gem from William Morris “Of Dyeing as an Art”
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Essays/Of_Dyeing_as_an_ArtLikeLike
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and this one is excellent too on Designs & Working Drawings by Lewis F. Day-
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Essays/Of_Designs_and_Working_DrawingsLikeLike
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and all these thoughts from well over 100 years ago hold true and even more so in this plastiscenic era
http://www.shonawilson.com/artwork/2012/plastiscenic-future-remains/ of cheap shiny cloth with the most awful texture made with poisonous dyes in to clothing that falls apart in less than a season. The commercial clothing industry is killing rivers and people in 3rd world countries to make ugly clothes that sell for less than what we paid for clothes 40 years ago!LikeLike
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beautiful colours and designs, i hope you got back to it.
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well said mo crow. I couldn’t agree more.
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i missed this somehow???? How did i miss Mo’s really
great offering here?????
THANKS mo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and yes. this is why almost all the cloth i use is
re~cycle. Thrift shop. With the exception pretty much
of Deb Lacativa’s work. But her dye work is on recycle
also.LikeLike






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