amandainvermont
VFG Member
VFG member Lizzie Bramlett has evilly written about the Cooper Hewitt digital textile collection in her most recent blog entry. I was quickly sucked into the thousands of items ("25,629 objects") and found it hard to stop looking. Now I'll tempt the rest of you.
After half an hour I decided to search for Leslie and DD Tillett. They had a brownstone on East 80th Street and the second floor was one long narrow room for hand screening fabric. I lived on the fourth floor, kind of a nanny for one of their children. I loved their fabrics and here is an example from @ 1970 from the Cooper Hewitt collection.
As someone who has always loved libraries, the digital libraries online are so amazing.
After half an hour I decided to search for Leslie and DD Tillett. They had a brownstone on East 80th Street and the second floor was one long narrow room for hand screening fabric. I lived on the fourth floor, kind of a nanny for one of their children. I loved their fabrics and here is an example from @ 1970 from the Cooper Hewitt collection.
As someone who has always loved libraries, the digital libraries online are so amazing.
. I wish they would digitalize them - great idea!
