French Textile Art Print Heraldic Red Flowers, Vintage Point Paper

Purchasing one of our large limited edition (1/24) life size/facsimile Giclee print offers you a chance to own a piece of textile history. This limited edition (1/24) Life size art print is a facsimile reproduction of an original point paper from France. Measuring 66cm wide by 64cm high the print has an additional 2 cm plain border to facilitate the framer. A unique piece of textile history, once framed & hung, your new artwork will not just be decorative it can be a fabulous topic for discussion. Many of our customers are fascinated about the detail & accuracy of each painted square & love working out how each point/square plays its unique part in transferring its weave to create a woven fabric! Our design ref MB 2309 ‘Newby’ was designed & produced in 1910 in Alsace, France by a family weaving firm, Koenig. The fabric pattern is one of several designs in the crewel or mosaic style in the Mills archive from this period. A thin & thick figured weft yarn in either cotton or linen was woven with a wool ground creating a textured relief that resembled an embroidered effect. The original point paper was part of a collection that came up for sale at Sotheby’s London in 1996 by Richard M R Smith. Richard ran his family jacquard fabric weaver, E & S Smith of Stadium Mills, Odsal, Bradford at this time. The collection was accumulated by Marcel Blanc who was a prolific producer & wholesaler of quality decorative furnishing fabrics woven in France. The Mill Koenig was established in 1824 by Napolean Koenig & remained in the Koenig family until the 1960’s. More information about our Facsimiles – Life size collection We have tried hard to reproduce accurate reproductions of the original point paper textile documents in our archive. After a high-resolution scan, we have left blemishes, pencil notes & even coffee mug stains when appropriate so that you see the ‘full picture’ our original industry art depicts. Our specialist printer’s wide width scans are limited to .9m width, which thankfully is usually the maximum width of the individual papers once hand painted on the designer’s drawing tables. Commercial paper width used to determine this width as did a designer’s arm span! in some cases, larger design repeats were drawn on several separate papers & often there may have been 2-6 pieces for one woven design repeat. in fact, some of the specialist 1900’s tapestry point papers we have involved up to 32 pieces to create a large wall hanging tapestry. To create the ‘Life size Art’ we have joined up each scanned piece on CAD to replicate the detailed ‘Life size’ Art as close to the originals dimensions as possible. Our local hands-on graphic designer uses a Giclee print process with Ultra Chrome EpsonK3 inks. The high-resolution scan facilitates a 1440 dpi output print. We use Fujifilm Fine Art Etch Paper 300gsm FUJFILM’s Fine Art Etch Paper is a mould-made, traditional fine art paper with a special matt coating. It has a very mild structured surface & is acid