Textile Gems Debuts New Line of Greeting Cards at the Milwaukee Art Museum China Show

Aug. 29, 2011 - PRLog -- Textile Gems™, a small ethnic arts business in New York City debuts
an enchanting group of greeting cards featuring early 1900s Chinese embroideries
this month at the Milwaukee Art Museum Shop.  The cards display charming
and accessible subjects such as mythical animals and butterflies, but also provide
easy-access windows to the deeper more complex worlds from which they
originate.

The greeting cards can be ordered anytime direct from Textile Gems™ , but
for those wishing to experience more fully the magnificence of any area of Chinese art, NOW is the time to catch any or all of the five stellar and breathtaking exhibitions of Chinese art now on view—but only until September 11th, 2011 at the Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Museum of Art has been showing this summer an ambitious series, titled the Summer of CHINA . From the Museum; "This summer, enter a realm of majesty and mystery. Experience three thousand years of Chinese art and culture in five exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This ambitious series, titled the Summer of CHINA, is part of a year-long celebration honoring the ten-year anniversary of the Museum’s Santiago Calatrava–designed Quadracci Pavilion." The summer of CHINA runs through September 11th.

Textile Gems™ ANDREW PASTORINO studied jewelry design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and is also a musician, who enjoys refinishing vintage drum sets in his “spare time.” His previous lines of jewelry (in precious metals, stones and resin enamels) have been featured in select New York City galleries and shops, including the shop of the Museum of Arts and Design. Andy looks forward to creating more unique custom-designed Textile Gems™. FRAN SEIGEL, an artist rep for many years, is a long-time admirer and collector of ethnic textiles--–especially those gorgeous “humble treasures” created by hand and for domestic use. Andy and Fran collaborate on Textile Gems™ products and Fran is also an enthusiastic researcher of ethnographic motifs and the decorative arts.

For more information about Textile Gems™ and their line of ethnic greeting cards, visit their website at http://www.textilegems.com/cards.html.