Silk Designs of Christopher Baudouin [1]Artist ProfileMarie-Therese Wisniowski

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Silk Designs of the 18th Century
Woven Textile Designs In Britain (1750 to 1763)
Woven Textile Designs in Britain (1764 to 1789)
Woven Textile Designs in Britain (1790 to 1825)
19th Century Silk Shawls from Spitalfields
Silk Designs of Joseph Dandridge
Silk Designs of James Leman
Silk Designs of Christopher Baudouin

Silk Designs of Christopher Baudouin [1]
Christopher Baudouin was described in Smith's - The Laboratory, or, School of Arts (1756 Edition) - as '...the first that brought the flower'd silk manufacture in credit and reputation here in England.' He was a Huguenot refugee, possibly from Tours, and was active in London from the 1680s, being naturalized with his wife and daughters in 1709, and signing himself, in petition in 1714 as one of the 'Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of the Hamlet of Spitalfields.' His earliest designs dated from 1707, and were to be woven by the Lemans for Mathew Vernon, a mercer with royal appointment. Baudouin was still producing work for James Leman in 1718, while his designs he produced in the later 1720s were delicate, accomplished and still highly fashionable, and were collected by Garthwaite, among her 'Patterns by Different Hands.' He had died some time before 1736, when his widow drew up her own will.

Dated: 1707.

Dated: 1718.

Dated: 18th Century.

Dated: 18th Century.

Dated: 18th Century.

Dated: 18th Century.

Reference:
[1] Ed. C. Brown, Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century, Thames and Hudson, London (1996).