Danish Textile Prints explores the significance and versatility of textile printing with an examination of the large collection held at the Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen which spans a period of about one hundred years. Kirsten Toftegaard's 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. The book demonstrates how Marie Gudme Leth, Helga Foght, Inge Ingetoft, Arne Jacobsen, Dorte Raaschou, Grete Ehs Østergaard and other Danish textile artists helped to provide the country's internationally recognised interior design culture its characteristic identity.
Strandburg, 204pp, 23cm x 23cm, illustrated hardcover, 2025