All posts tagged “Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution 1520–1620

Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 20, 2015 – January 10, 2016

“Printed sources related to the design of textile patterns first appeared during the Renaissance when six intricate, interlaced “knotwork” designs, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and later copied by Albrecht Dürer, marked the beginning of a fruitful international exchange of pattern designs. Starting in the 1520s, small booklets… Read More