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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Jacobean Look France, c.1920s, BP linen, HFYG D430 01

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Jacobean Look France, c.1920s, BP linen, HFYG D430_01
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Jacobean Look
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country France
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Publication Date: c.1920s
Image Description: France, c.1920s, BP linen

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"KING JAMES I of England gave the Latin form of his name, Jacobus, to the Jacobean age and to a style of seventeenth-century decor distinguished by elaborate carving, heavy oak furniture, fine tapestries, and crewel embroidery with flowing arborescent designs. It is this crewelwork that is imitated in later, Jacobean-look prints. The original patterns seem to have had two principal sources: Flemish verdure tapestries, imported by the British on a grand scale in the seventeenth century and themselves derived from older Gothic designs; and Indian palampores, also a popular imported textile. (The English East India Company had been founded to trade with the East in 1600, three years before James came to the throne.) Both the tapestries and the palampores featured acanthus-like leaves filled in with allover patterns. But the palampore flowering trees were not purely Indian inventions: like modern Jacobean-look prints, many contained motifs modified from English crewelwork, sent to Indian craftsmen by British merchants to copy for the home market. This kind of recirculation of influences is commonplace in the hybrid world of fabric design."

Source: Design Library