Decorative Textiles from The V&A Musuem

Fabulous textiles from the Victoria and Albert Museum (and thank you DWELL for sharing). To read more on the V&A's new release of decorative textile patterns, please visit http://www.dwell.com/articles/V-and-A-Pattern-Series-II.html)

One of my personal favorites, "Graphica" is a furnishing fabric sample from British textile design maven Lucienne Day for Heal's. 1954, from The Fifties.

Paul Brown's plotter drawing "BIGDIM / 0 10 10 0 0 0 / 200,120 / 11,969" is an intricate progression and deconstruction of geometric shapes. 1979, from Digital Pioneers.

Plotter drawing by Robert Mallary, Untitled, 1981, from Digital Pioneers.

April, dress fabric. Clayton Knight/Stehli Silks Corporation. Crêpe de Chine. USA, 1927 (V&A: T.87N-1930). From V&A Pattern Series II: Novelty Patterns published by V&A Publishing and Abrams Books.

Matelot, dress fabric. Calico Printers' Association. Roller-printed cotton. UK, 1934 (V&A: T.244-1987). From V&A Pattern Series II: Novelty Patterns published by V&A Publishing and Abrams Books.

From Greek chapter in The Grammar of Ornament, plate 57. Owen Jones. Lithograph. UK, 1856 (V&A: 49.G.53). From V&A Pattern Series II: Owen Jones published by V&A Publishing and Abrams Books.