Danish Textile Prints

Textile printing is a method for aesthetically enhancing a woven textile through a combination of images and patterns, rhythm and repetition, tactility and texture, colours and light, two-dimensionality and illusions of three-dimensionality. In Denmark, Marie Gudme Leth, Helga Foght, Inge Ingetoft, Arne Jacobsen, Dorte Raaschou, Grete Ehs Østergaard and other textile artists helped give our internationally recognized interior design culture its characteristic identity. This book explores the significance and versatility of textile printing based on Designmuseum Danmark’s large collection, which spans a period of about one hundred years. The book shows the development from early attempts with batik and block printing to screen printing and modern digital printing.

Textile printing is a method for aesthetically enhancing a woven textile through a combination of images and patterns, rhythm and repetition, tactility and texture, colours and light, two-dimensionality and illusions of three-dimensionality. In Denmark, Marie Gudme Leth, Helga Foght, Inge Ingetoft, Arne Jacobsen, Dorte Raaschou, Grete Ehs Østergaard and other textile artists helped give our internationally recognized interior design culture its characteristic identity. This book explores the significance and versatility of textile printing based on Designmuseum Danmark’s large collection, which spans a period of about one hundred years. The book shows the development from early attempts with batik and block printing to screen printing and modern digital printing.