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Achoo!
#PrintingOnFabric
drbibliomane.bsky.social Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Nov 16
Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers.
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
Red and white printed square handkerchief, designed to make you think you are looking at an untidy heap of printed papers: a playing card, a receipt, portrait engravings, a play, sheet music, positioned every which way.
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Yes, someone SHOULD be exploring early modern #printingonfabric! 😁
yunxie.bsky.social Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · Aug 16
In this image, the text the angels are holding seems to be printed on a soft piece of fabric rather than something more rigid like paper or stone. Maybe the history of using fabric or silk as a medium for printed information is something that still needs to be explored… #printonsilk #bookhistory
oldpapercollector.bsky.social Old Paper Collector @oldpapercollector.bsky.social · Aug 15
Lately I’ve been diving deep into Rubens’ frontispieces — and here’s a gem from my collection: the Generale Kerckelijcke Historie (Antwerp, 1623), with a monumental title page designed by Peter Paul Rubens and engraved by Lucas Vorsterman.

#bookhistory
#rubens
August 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
#PrintingOnFabric
May 1, 2026 at 8:52 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Snakes AND Swallows,
in THIS Economy?

Is this too (inadvertently) #OFMD of me? 😁 #PrintingOnFabric #Shelfie
Selfie in the library stacks with a shiny orange red jacquard jacket featuring swallows and a black turtleneck with reddish snake silkscreen pattern.
March 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Finished the book images! Now on to the words, words, words...
Did we... Write too much????

Nah.

#ImpressiveTextiles #PrintingOnFabric
Bright yellow silk broadside in Spanish, 1760, at Newberry. https://collections.newberry.org/Share/x5181h88wyf6t0433305tqfesdt2mfn5
September 1, 2026 at 1:21 PM
sarahdesigns.bsky.social
Patterns on the work table today.

#blockprinting #linocut #printingonfabric #shopindie #handmade
A selection of prints on fabric, block printed from linocuts. Images of snowdrops, a sun with a face, a hopping hare, a rose and a flower. Also a carved lino block featuring a teasel in the centre of the photograph.
February 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Bespoke Book Bindings
#PrintingOnFabric
Ribbon saying "Presented to the Newberry Library by the Friday Club of Chicago, 1898." Shinier, slightly blurry closeup.
April 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
SATIN Seduction ...

Is NOT the title of the book I just turned in for copyediting, but it could have been! 😂
#textiles #PrintingonFabric
Shiny silk satin with green letterpress and stitching. Yellow satin with spangled on top of red plain weave silk.
August 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
That's Some GREAT
Fabric Printing

And embroidering, and gilding... 1780 bilingual Hebrew and German poem in honor of Empress Catherine II of Russia!
1/?

#HoughtonLibrary #Satin #PrintingOnFabric #Bling
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Embroidered gold and silk cover. Text of title page in Hebrew and German for 1780 praise poem to Catherine the Great, her name overlaid in gold.
July 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
kristinaschaper.bsky.social
Waiting for my Atelierhaus members… printing on fabric is the topic of today’s class.

#kristinasatelierhaus #handcarvedstamps #printingonfabric #kristinasdruckwerkstatt
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Printed Patterns c. 1841

#Calico #PrintingOnFabric
Swatches at #NewberryLibrary

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Green triangles Blue triangles Red and white waves White and pink strands
June 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Should I Wear THIS to My Exhibition Opening?

Getting a bit ahead of myself, but if I turn the book in TODAY, I'll have until December 10, 2026 to figure out how to do it! (I already know Spoonflower can help make me a multiple Veronica fabric...)
#PrintingonFabric
#VeilofVeronica
#Sudarium
Cutout Veronica woodcut. Cutout Veronica woodcut. Cutout Veronica woodcut. Cutout Veronica woodcut.
August 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Be Not Afrayed!

Home stretch on my printing on fabric exhibition catalogue writing today through Friday! So here are some details bordering on interesting in the meantime... #PrintingOnFabric #JustKeepWriting #Textiles
Pink silk border with black engraving and platemark corner. Bright cream silk with red printing and loose thread, bottom edge. Relief border, silk and metallic trim. Relief print and cotton band, fraying slightly.
March 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Not Giving Up My Shot

Learned recently that while all of these are plain weave fabrics, one is mysteriously and beautifully called "changeable" shot silk in early modern parlance! 🥰

And yes, the book IS due to copyediting this week, why do you ask? 🤣

#PrintingOnFabric
#NewberryLibrary
#Textiles
17th c. green and yellow silk. 18th c. gold silk with letterpress. 18th c. plain weave linen. Sequins and metal thread on 18th c. red silk.
August 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
A Few NEW Fine Fabrics

At #NewberryLibrary
#NewAcq #PrintingOnFabric
Pink velvet binding, woodcut and letterpress on linen printed touch relic tag (St. Donatius) and an embroidered silk with Christ's body printed in red.
September 3, 2024 at 3:50 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
More Fun With Fabrics!

Book *might* get turned in today... Focusing on the slightly details, like less shiny but serviceable Cotton. Still chuffed that I can identify the (plain) weave! Once the book goes on its merry way we'll celebrate with satin!

#PrintingOnFabric
#manuscript
#editing #textiles
Hand colored woodblock on loose Indian cotton (khadi). Corner of a printed handkerchief. HDWE letters screenprinted or stenciled on canvas. Glowing face on cotton.
August 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Posh, Political, and Protective

Some of the Silk, Silk, Linen, and Paper printed materials going into my Printing on Fabric show in December 2026! Thrilled I was able to share them and the intro catalogue chapter (virtually) with a grad student class last week! #PrintingOnFabric #NewberryLibrary
Tiny silk engraved portrait and silk painted and printed marriage souvenir, printed about a year apart, 1624-25. Quasi Turin Shroud, in color woodcut on paper foldout, on right of linen storm protection charm.
March 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
15th or 20th Century Crucifixion?

One of these is a reproduction, but both are printed on textile and hand colored!
#PrintingOnFabric
#NewberryLibrary #BayerischesStaatsbibilothek
#GoodFriday
Crucifixion woodcut on linen with dark gray background. Hand colored Crucifixion woodcut on linen on white background, on a book cover.
April 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
thereprintery.bsky.social
We cut our thrifted shirts out of the sewn seams so we have flat pieces of fabric to print on. Our Lino sheets are about 12”x19” to fit on our manual press bed. #printingonfabric #textileprint #surfacedesign #repurposedtextiles #thereprintery #garmentsewing #sustainabletextiles
Close up of two hands pulling a piece of fabric off of a blue inked linoleum sheet in a 1inch grid design. The fabric is from a blue Oxford shirt, the front right side of the shirt, having been cut from the garment. The press is wood and red enamel, like a clamshell that presses the lino and fabric between these two pieces of wood.
February 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Upcoming Distraction:
Catholic Cloth!

This Friday, I'll informally discuss some of the flashy fabric-printed liturgical objects in the #NewberryLibrary winter 2026 exhibition and catalogue about #PrintingOnFabric.
This Zoom is part of the #ProJesArt project. #Textiles #Jesuits
DM me for the link!
Flyer for ProJesArt Online Research Seminar featuring me, March 28, 10 central, title: Catholic Cloth: Devotional and Thesis Printing on Fabric in the Early Modern World. Background is a faded image of a woodcut border from a 1746 thesis print from Puebla Mexico.
March 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Oh When the Saints
Come Rolling In

19th c. German devotional healing band printed with images of the Virgin and Child, a sideways St. Valentine and the glow-upped head of St. Anastasius!

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Vertical view of saints Cotton band with saints
September 10, 2023 at 4:43 PM