The Art of Textiles
Spink & Son, London 1989, 167 pages, 21x29 cm, paperback
An exhibition for sale Spink & Son Ltd at St James's, London, SW1Y 6QS December 1989
euro 30,00
Textiles from China, India, Turkey, Europe
Japanese and Chinese Textiles 10th-19th century
Chinese Textiles for Export 17th-18th century
Indian Court and Export Textiles
Islamic Textiles 7th-19th century
Costumes from Uzbekistan and Chinese Turkestan
European Textiles and Ecclesiastical Vestments
Silk and Velvet from Spain,France and Italy
English Figured Silk,Velvet and Chimoiserie Embroidery
19th and 20th century European Woven,Embroidered and painted textiles
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UPDATE - This print is finally available for sale in A4 and A3 on my estu store! Thanks for all the support critters <3
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This is my first critical role fanart as I never have the confidence in myself to actually do it. I wanted to give the cast something when Iet them, as they give us so much. So here it is, my vision of the awesome BellsHells. I tried to put alot of emotion into their faces with everything that is looming over them at the moment i hope you like it. Love to the cast always.
I gave them each a print of the art, a souvenir ticket i designed for their london live show coming up and I managed to get a tshirt done for each of the girls. I manually cut out the vinyl with an art knife as i didn't have time to figure out my cricut -_-....
I'm almost invisible online, but you can find me on instergram, and Twitter/X as Crayistic.
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some ceramic charms to sell at my local gallery for the 32nd annual pride art show! (we have an extra non corporate pride month here haha)
much of my recently posted sculptures will be for sale here too ( the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell gallery) as well as some trans werewolf pins so swing on by at 7pm if you’re in London, Ontario!
my work is listed for sale under Julian Miholics on the artist section and some is also on the pride show section; available for pickup/global shipping, and payment plans are offered ^^ 💛
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