Comments on: Anna Maria Garthwaite, Silk Designer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joanne Gwatkin-Williams https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1625127 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 04:17:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1625127 This is so fascinating, I wish I could know more and I wish I had known all this when I lived in London and visited Spitalfield often. Sadly I am now domiciled in Australia. Where can more information and detail on the final designs be obtained?

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1347025 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 08:36:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1347025 How did the weavers replicate designs such as Anna’s in silk? Did they just pin it under the warp on the loom and try to copy it or did they have a more sophisticated method? I am really curious to know!

Thanks

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1347018 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 08:05:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1347018 How did the weavers copy her designs into the silk itself? Did they put copies of her pictures under the warps of her looms and just copy it as they weaved or did they do something more sophisticated?

]]> By: Russell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1291642 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 01:51:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1291642 I love stories like this. Well done!

]]> By: P Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1291621 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:48:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1291621 Where did the the silk thread come from?
Silk cloth is now made here in Sudbury Suffolk at 4 different silk mills

]]> By: Hetty Startup https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1291589 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:14:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1291589 I have been interested in Anna Maria Garthwaite since the GA first wrote about her place in the story/stories of Spitalfields. How wonderful that this book is now available. Thank you! Hetty

]]> By: Carol Gilham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1291558 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:05:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1291558 This was a particularly wonderful post. I wish I could be in Rochester tomorrow. You don’t happen to know where in York A. M. Garthwaite lived, do you? I have had no success in finding that information and I would love to know. Thanks for all your writing—I am a regular reader and have learned so much. Carol

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1291545 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:49:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1291545 Remarkable lady indeed! And a great designer…

It must have been very exciting at the time to have all sorts of new plants coming from all over the world as inspiration.

]]> By: Claire https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/07/anna-maria-garthwaite-silk-designer-x/#comment-1291544 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 06:38:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174848#comment-1291544 It could be argued I think that Anna Maria Garthwaite’s distinctiveness lies in the outstanding beauty and brilliance of her designs, not her sex.

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