Hello,
I am fairly new to fabrics and fabric collecting - only two years, so far. I collect post-WWII artists' fabrics and products made from them, mainly those of Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Klee, Dufy, Leger, Braque, Dali, Escher, Calder, Saul Steinberg, Matisse, Mondrian, Ken Scott, Warhol, Komei, and some others. Many were made by Fuller Fabrics, Bloomcraft, White Stag, Pacific, JP Stevens, Karl Lagerfeld, Kaktus, Patterson, LaVerne Originals, and Carolyn Winters/Pozitively Prints. I started collecting Picasso sheets/linens for household use purposes and to be used in cushions, but decided to collect artists' fabrics for posterity after seeing the low numbers of these fabrics and items in different world museum web sites.
I am collecting to donate the collection to a museum that will allow them to be displayed, seen and studied by future generations. Hopefully, I will be donating them this year. (I am 75 - no sense putting off donating.)
I have some surplus, duplicated, items that I will soon be listing to trade for items I do not have, including a spare white on black "Notes" Fuller Fabrics fabric dress by Picasso, a few extra pieces of Fuller Fabrics Modern Masters fabrics - one a piece of Chagall's "Evening Enchantment," some Picasso Pacific Miracale (several patterns) sheets, pillowcases, comforters, duvet covers, some 3-yard pieces of Mondrian fabric, and some Picasso Kaktus shirts/jackets/shackets. There will also be a wish list. The first three items on the wish list will be: Fuller Fabrics Modern Masters dresses, Fuller Fabrics Modern Masters fabrics, and other Fuller Fabrics Modern Masters items.
I have written a paper, "Fabric Notes, of a collector," about the fabrics I am collecting and posted it to Academia.edu, if anyone is interested. It is about 80 pages of info and several hundred images I have stolen from the internet and other published and unpublished sources. I have tried to organize it into a semi-understandable form. You may have to join Academia.edu to be able to see it, but it's free for the basic service, I believe. The paper has the only semi-organized listing/images of most of the Fuller Fabrics Modern Masters fabrics that I know of.
At some point soon, I hope to do a second paper listing the articles I already own, with images, as an inventory for museums to look over while deciding if they have a fitting repository, if my collection is worthy of being conserved, and if they have the "wanna" for my collection. I will try to share it with this forum, also.
I am gratefully accepting monetary and artists' fabric donations for the collection if anyone has any. Please let me know if you have either. There are a few more dresses and other items I'd like to add, now for sale, but are presently out of my price range. (I am what I term independently poor - as opposed to being independently wealthy, which I am not.) And there are still lots of holes in the collection for fabric donations and manufactured items from those fabrics. (Especially Fuller Fabrics Modern Masters fabrics, dresses, and other items, my favorites.)
Also, since I've bought (or at least tried to buy) most of the not-too-highly-priced stuff that has sold or been for sale, worldwide, in these categories for the last two years on the internet, I am somewhat of an expert on the prices that I've paid or would pay, if anyone wants some free advice on selling something in the artists' fabrics category. Or if they are looking for a second opinion.
Thank you.
Don
