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For #TextileTuesday a Catherine wheel in silk with metal thread embroidery and applied decoration.

It’s part of a beautiful 450 year old altar cloth on display a new exhibition at Exeter Cathedral, I highly recommend a visit.

#embroidery #tudortuesday
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
chartresfi.bsky.social
The altar frontal at St George's, Kelmscott is made up of two 17thC Turkish hangings stitched together and was given to the church by Jane Morris. The subtle, faded colour really suits the church, nothing garish here!
#TextileTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
hedgehoggrl.bsky.social
Wall o' yarn.
I could just look at this all day long.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #BlueTue #CyanTue
#RedTuesday #TextileTuesday #SensoryArt #patterns #ToolsOfTheTradeTuesday
A wall of cubbies filled with various types of yarn, organized by color, with a wooden ladder to reach the upper shelves.
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
sarcher.bsky.social
#TextileTuesday waits for no man. This “Trip Around the World” quilt was likely made ca. 1970-80. I’m always moved by the presence of unattributed works of art in museums; what would this quilt’s maker think about their creation being in the collection of the @philamuseum.bsky.social?
A red orange blue and white patchwork quilt
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
hedgehoggrl.bsky.social
Modern tapestry.
Fabric wall, Grand Palais, Paris.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #TextileTuesday #TapestryTuesday
#SensoryArt #patterns
Detail of a wall of vertical strips of various textiles woven into a large room partition. The primary colors are greens and golds with black accents. Some of the fabrics are metallic, and others are reflective so that the entire piece seems to glow.
November 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
cathylowe.bsky.social
It's legilium of the month (or even year), in St James the Greater, Leicester.

And for #TextileTuesday, a fine fall embellished with shells. This is a portrait of the legilium him/her-self. @notpodium.bsky.social @chartresfi.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
observethedate.bsky.social
Tuesday
#BluePlaqueTuesday
#Coosday
#EpigraphyTuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday
#LibraryTuesday
#RaptorTuesday
#RedTuesday
#TerracottaTuesday
#TextileTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#TidesOutTuesday
#TilesOnTuesday
#TimepieceTuesday
#TombstoneTuesday
#TombTuesday
#TorcTuesday
#TowerTuesday
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
merryrobin.bsky.social
For today, a #TextileTuesday embroidery thread 🧵🪡
merryrobin.bsky.social Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Oct 20
Mary Linwood (1755–1845) was an English textile artist who exhibited her embroidery in Leicester and London.
In 1790, she received a medal from the Society of Arts.
The Mary Linwood Comprehensive School was named in her honour.
Here, an embroidery (!) self-portrait, c. 1785.
And Tigress, c. 1798.
An oval shape, very original self-portrait, with very realistic embroidery. The artist is a young white woman with brown curly hair looking at herself, next to a balcony or window. There are strokes of clear blue sky. She has a richly detailed white lace dress. She seems nostalgic. Another incredibly realistic embroidery depiction of a tigress, resting on a natural wilderness setting. There is a lot of detail on the depiction of her muscles and her paws, and the only unrealistic feature are her eyes, that are a bit bigger and sad. Maybe her pups were taken away by British colonisers, very common in her days. The colours on the background are muted, giving her focus.
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
chartresfi.bsky.social
The really rather lovely altar frontal at St Peter's, Lowick is a beautifully embroidered depiction of one of the 14thC windows in the church. It shows Sir Simon de Drayton (possibly) offering a model of the church.
#TextileTuesday
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
For #TextileTuesday it’s #wool and Tudor hats.

More over on Instagram
#tudortuesday
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
joysayer.bsky.social
St Thomas’ Church, Henbury, Cheshire. #textileTuesday
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#TwoForTuesday + #TextileTuesday + #TigerTuesday
Dahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917-2017)
#Leopard and #Tiger, 1974
Wool on linen ground, 36 x 60 in. Private Collection
On display at “Dahlov Ipcar: The Possibilities of Pattern” @ Shelbourne Museum
shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/d...
#WomenArtists
wool rug depicting a lion (top) and leopard (bottom) curled up together like a yin-yang on a leafy & floral background
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
snormanca.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulence Fabrics can be opulent. This lovely silk wrap looks and feels opulent. Unfortunately I rarely have a chance to wear it 🤷‍♀️ #TextileTuesday #textiles
October 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
debsadelight.bsky.social
Altar cloth Tideswell
#TextileTuesday
October 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
A small section of the Bacton Altar Cloth, a wonderful 16th century survivor, part of a gown worn by Elizabeth 1.

I visited St Faith’s Church, Bacton in 2024.

rosemarygriggs.co.uk/blog/44/

📷 2019 at HamptonCourt Palace

#TextileTuesday #embroidery
October 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#TextileTuesday:
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with #Hawk and Waves
Japan, early to mid-20th c.
Cotton, plant dyes
On display at BMA (2024.374)
“The firefighter who chose this design…valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.”
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt
photo of the fireman’s coat (design: brown hawk flying over blue wave) hanging on display at museum photo of the gallery label: “Unidentified Artists) Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with Hawk and Waves early to mid-20th century Japan Cotton, plant dyes This handmade firefighter's coat, made of layers of cotton stitched securely together, is displayed inside-out to reveal a hawk soaring above turbulent waves. Worn during a fire with its undecorated exterior facing out, the coat was saturated with water to protect the firefighter from flames and debris. Rather than using water to put out fires, late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese firefighters demolished structures near a fire to prevent it from spreading. After extinguishing a fire, the heroic men turned their coats to display the decorated insides. The firefighter who chose this design for his coat valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision. Anonymous Gift, BMA 2024.374”
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
Stumpwork embroidery for #TextileTuesday

Memories of a visit to a brilliant exhibition at the Holburne Museum, Bath a few years ago.

#embroidery #stumpwork
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#TextileTuesday :
#PolarBear on Ice Floe, c. 1930
Manufacturer: Grenfell Mission Industrial Department (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, active 1909-1984)
Jute burlap ground; wool & rayon or silk jersey pile
On display at Baltimore Museum of Art (1996.165)
photo of the rug hanging on display at museum “solitary [polar] bear adrift on broken ice” closeup of the polar bear gallery label: “Manufacturer: Grenfell Mission Industrial Department Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, active 1909-1984 Polar Bear on Ice Floe c. 1930 Jute burlap ground; wool and rayon or silk jersey pile This rug depicting a polar bear on sea ice was made by women working for the Grenfell Mission charity. The Mission helped women in fishing villages along the Atlantic coast earn income through the production and sale of rugs by supplying them with pattern kits and used nylon stockings donated by urban North American and British women. The company slogan, "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!," spurred the public to support their cause. Scenes of local, Arctic imagery captured the area's natural beauty and appealed to urban consumers. In today's climate emergency, however, this solitary bear adrift on broken ice serves as a reminder of Arctic wildlife at risk due to rapidly melting glaciers. Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore, BMA 1996.165 Turn Again to the Earth”
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
antiquity.ac.uk
Neolithic house from the site of Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia includes installations for food preparation, textile production and other features of long-term sedentism, indicating permanent household societies in the prehistoric Balkans #TextileTuesday

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Left: Rectilinear excavated pit containing lots of annotated features. Right: plan of the pit, highlighting the features such as a pyrotechnical installation.
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
Time for tapestry. Bess of Hardwick brought the Gideon Tapestries to Hardwick Hall in 1592/3. Beautifully restored by the National Trust.

@hardwickhallnt

#textiletuesday #tapestry #tapestries #elizabethan #bessofhardwick
September 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
joysayer.bsky.social
St Mary the Virgin Church, Great Dunmow, Essex. #textileTuesday
September 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
yewfemia.bsky.social
Just found out it's #TextileTuesday, so here's a tea-cosy and an embroidered card (both my own design), and a rag rug using fabric samples which were about to be thrown away #recycling #savedfromlandfill
November 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Gorgeous.
Also, I really want #TextileTuesday to be a thing.
October 3, 2023 at 8:48 AM
ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
I tried my hand at patchwork long ago, before my first son was born, but didn’t manage anything as impressive as this quilt at Dunster Castle

📸 my own

#textiletuesday #patchwork
July 9, 2024 at 6:26 AM
ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
Lincoln Green was created by dyeing with woad and weld (blue+yellow=green)

Apparently first mentioned in documents in 1510

📷from a visit to exhibition at Museum of Dartmoor Life Okehampton in 2023

#textiletuesday #wool
February 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM