Found my first... PICTURES ADDED

drum roll please...

SHAHEEN! A skirt with signed front and back panels - no labels.

I have Xmas/Hannukah with my step family today (we celebrate it all!) and cast party tomorrow, but will try and post pics soon.

Thanks to you guys, AGAIN, I knew what I was lookin' at!

 

:party: Can't wait to see!!

 

Nice find! Hope you enjoyed your celebrations!

 

How nice! A skirt, you say???

 

Thanks, ladies! I even get excited when I see the first snowflake every year or the first fly in the spring...

Yes Lizzie, it's a full length blue linen skirt with nylon zip. I think homemade, but both panels are signed. It has an oriental type of dogwood (or other flowering tree) silkscreened in gold and white.

Will post pics Monday or Tuesday.

 

Here it is:

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Very tiny with a 24" waist and it would not go over the hips of my size 1,2 dress form so it's held there with a belt.

 

Ooh, and a lovely one at that! Is that lotus blossom? I am terrible with flowers. Great find Deborah - something I doubt I will ever come across over here..

 

That's lovely, Deborah; stunning color (I bet that's what drew you to it to begin with!) And linen, too? Beautiful understated but distinctive pattern.

 

You're bang on, Anne - understated - I think that's what I like about it most.

Lotus blossom - makes sense - will investigate, as I'm not terrif with flowers either.

I think I may take the skirt apart and frame both panels...

 

I actually like that idea, Deborah. I have thought about framing some of my Vera scarves. You could have a whole new redo of a room just from framing it.

 

The print is stunning! And it would make beautiful "wall art"!

 

They look like dogwood flowers to me.

Janine

 

Thanks, ladies! Mmmmmm, gold frame or white frame...

Linda, framing Vera is a great idea - I have a few of hers that are just like paintings.

I thought it was dogwood when I first looked at it, Janine, but my dogwood has its leaves when it flowers. Perhaps there are varieties like magnolia that bloom before the leaves come out.

Harriet, celebrations were a lot of fun, thanks! Especially with my grandson and grand niece on Saturday for Hannumas/Christmakah. A traditional French Revellion will be had with my husband's family on Xmas eve - violins, spoons, toe-tapping and far too much food!

I'm stuffed already.

 

Cherry or Plum Blossom? - they bloom before the leaves and are both popluar in Asian art.

Hollis

 

Cherry blossom - that's what I meant in my head, if you know what I mean! Think you're right Hollis

 

Yummy - That sure looks like hand silk screened fabric. They start with plain white fabric - then screen on the blue - then the brown. About 30 years ago (!! ack !!) I lived on E. 80th St. in NYC in the home of a family who sold this kind of fabric. The entire second floor was devoted to the silk screening (it was a long narrow brownstone.) Back then the material sold for $60 a yard and up.

Apple blossom is definitely what came to mind first... Lovely!

 

Thanks, ladies!

Hollis - on closer inspection I think this fabric may also be a "slubbed rayon" - edges have all been finished (serged?) to stop fraying.

amandainvermont (sorry, I don't know your name) - I would love to see one of those examples! $60.00 a yard - a king's ransom... I think this was probably cheaper as the gold and white are raised on the blue background.