The textile history of Mulhouse is part of its heritage and its DNA. To pay tribute to it, a fabric is created each year by a local designer and used to decorate the Christmas market. The collections of the Museum of Printed Fabrics are used as inspiration. The pattern and the colours change every year. These fabrics become thus a real collection!
Frost settles on plant volutes, creating lacy ferns and magnifying the warm colours of rowan berries and hellobore flowers.
Birds bring movement to a natural setting frozen by cold, ice and snowflakes. She plays with shades of red and golden motifs that give a soft, warm glow to the starry sky. The Christmas fabric, created by Marie-Jo Gebel, is a tribute to the artistic creativity and technical innovation of the Mulhouse factories of the late 19th century. The designer draws her inspiration from fabrics, from the archives of the Museum of Printed Fabrics, dating from the years and that reveal large flowering bouquets with many colors.
A rendering of 16 different colors β including gold β implemented with only 12 cylinders, recalling the decorative arts of the late nineteenth century and the fashion for rose gardens in gardens. With patterns and colors specially created each year by designer Marie-Jo Gebel, the Christmas fabric sounds like a symphony. Indeed, it is in the 18th century that angels appear in fabrics and decorative art, and this from the first textile prints, becoming a fashion phenomenon from to The other is a visual Alsatian dating from the same period and unknown manufacture presenting hearts.
The whole forms a harmonious fabric between the angels and the links of the heart, whose melody is in tune with the magic of Christmas. These fabrics were woven with this textile fiber of incomparable softness. Early in the 19th century, Alsace and England printed cashmere patterns, mainly cotton squares but also handkerchiefs and from the famous shawls.
