Her particular passion was embroidery, though, and she used travel diaries, swatches of ethnic fabrics and art books to inspire her designs.
Toni Shephard at the University of Exeter's Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour and colleagues put the folklore to a test, using both captive birds obtained from wildlife rescue centres and wild birds around the university campus.The team used a collection of test objects that included screws, aluminium foil rings, and small swatches of foil.
They want the latest model, they want their computer, they want their camcorder, they want cool Swatches".This should be good news for manufacturers of brand-name consumer goods.
Dotted around are mood boards decorated with pages torn from shoots in magazines, archive photographs and street style shots; next to them are storyboards for collections, with evocative phrases like "New England" and "Carnaby" and swatches of materials pinned to them to illustrate patterns, prints, colours and themes.
— Moiz Syed, Wikimedia Foundation 14. Crayola crayon colors Children of the '80s and '90s, rejoice: There are color swatches on this page that you didn't even know you wanted to see again.
Detox teas have had a huge boost in popularity this year, in part thanks to vast swatches of reality TV stars plugging various tea brands on their Instagram accounts.
At a glance, his graphic made up of different-sized rectangles looks like a collection of swatches of paint for a smart home.
That's far more persuasive than the girl behind the counter in Boots or an online beauty site where you rely on dubious colour swatches and miss out on that try-before-you-buy experience".
Since he started before Farrow & Ball (the firm was founded in the 1940s) it might be fairer to put it the other way round – and point out that their colour swatches are very Paul Nash – but that there's some kind of kinship between the two is undeniable, I think.
Known for their signature blend of ethnicity and exoticism, Takada's designs incorporated bright and breezy floral and tribal prints with experiments on volume and tailoring, mixing swatches of garish remaindered fabrics with grey flannel trousers and white cotton shirts, in an aesthetic that owes as much to haphazard layering as it does to the couture tradition.
There's an old mahogany haberdasher's cabinet in here too, but the fabric swatches have been replaced with mustard and jam jars.
