Vintage Vibes

24/07/2025

24/07/2025

"Blended Hyakkaryouran Elegance" was a coat Kathy Knapp Wearable &Textile Art designed years ago extensively through the use of traditionally pieced patchwork and free-motion quilting. It has rather simple design elements incorporated throughout in order to showcase the elegant palette of the Japanese fabrics. In fact, I still gravitate toward use of Asian floral textiles embedded within the details of my more elaborate surface designs.

In this work the unusual buttons were created by stuffing the traditional yo-yo, and tying them to simulate the appearance of tiny wrapped gifts.

Kathy Knapp.Wearable & Textile Art

24/07/2025

Les deseo un dulce descanso. 🤎🤍🩷🩵✨🌿

24/07/2025

This photograph, showing the inside of a bodice, demonstrates why ladies would employ a professional dressmaker to fit and construct such a puzzle of complexity, while they were content to plug away at the endless seams and hems of voluminous skirts, frills and ruffles.

We often read in novels of women buying "a dress", or of fathers bringing one home for a daughter. This wasn't the finished garment, but sufficient fabric (many many yards) with which to make one. Until the end of the century, when blouses in particular became fashionable, all women's clothing was made to measure, either at home or by a professional.

23/07/2025

✨ Senderos de ensueño y rincones mágicos ✨
Una tarde, un jardín, mil luces y paz en el alma 🌿🏡🕯️