Lyon Silks

Anonymous French Compiler
Sample Book from Lyon
1905-1906
mounted swatches of dyed silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Ribbon Sample
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Ribbon Sample
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Ribbon Sample
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Ribbon Sample
ca. 1919
cut and voided silk velvet on satin ground
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1919
cut and voided silk velvet on satin ground
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1919
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Herman Elsberg (Lyon designer)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1920
alternating stripes of silk satin and silk velvet with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Charles Plumet for Tassinari & Chatel (Lyon)
Fabric Panel
ca. 1912
silk damask with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Les Petit Fils de C.J. Bonnet (Lyon)
Fabric Panel
1962
hand-cut satin jacquard
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Adrien Karbowsky for Tassinari & Chatel (Lyon)
La Musique
1911
silk and cotton upholstery fabric with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Yvonne Clarinval for Tassinari & Chatel (Lyon)
La Terre
1925
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Yvonne Clarinval for Tassinari & Chatel (Lyon)
L'Eau
1925
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Yvonne Clarinval for Tassinari & Chatel (Lyon)
Le Feu
1925
silk satin with woven pattern
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Westward on the high-hilled plains

    Where for me the world began,

Still, I think, in newer veins

    Frets the changeless blood of man. 

Now that other lads than I

    Strip to bathe on Severn shore,

They, no help, for all they try,

    Tread the mill I trod before.

There, when hueless is the west

    And the darkness hushes wide,

Where the lad lies down to rest

    Stands the troubled dream beside.

There, on thoughts that once were mine,

    Day looks down the eastern steep,

And the youth at morning shine

    Makes the vow he will not keep.

– A.E. Housman (1896)