The family start to collect rare books and textile art to archive in their in-house library, as the foundation of design research for future collections.

Many quilters and fabric artists use a process called thread drawing (or thread painting) to create embellishments on their projects or to create textile art.

They are also taken through a step by step process culminating in the creation of their own piece of textile art.

These may often, as in textile art, be repeated many times in a pattern.

The same applies to many items of lacquerwork and textile art.