The Bruno Pichler Collection

Bruno Pichler became interested in textiles and textile designs at an early stage of his life. While attending Textile School in Dornbirn, Austria, he studied merchandising and developed a keen interest in fabric design.

Bruno Pichler’s path to becoming one of the foremost collectors of antique design patterns may be summarized as follows:

1965: Graduation from Textile School

1966: Knitwear manufacturing company Bleyle, Stuttgart, Germany

1967: Dormeuil Freres, Duesseldorf and London

Agent and coordinator for textile design graduates of The Royal College of Art, London, and various other British Colleges

1968: Bruno Pichler Design Ltd.

International textile design business for the worldwide marketing and selling of design work produced by various artists and textile design studios from different parts of Europe (e.g. Paris, Lyon, Como and Krefeld).

Altogether Bruno Pichler worked 12 years in London, four years in Sydney, Australia, and two years in Paris.

In 1985 Bruno Pichler relocated to New York, NY 10016, where he showed his extensive library of antique fabrics and swatches, which he collected over the previous 20 years. In 2004 Bruno Pichler retired and closed the business in 2005.

You can now enjoy viewing these antique design reference books online. The books cover the productions of European textile mills from the early 19^th century until the middle of the 20^th century.

All major design categories are being represented:

• Printed cotton, silks and wools

• in silk, wool and cotton

• Piece and yarn dyed fabrics, ribbons, lace, embroideries, scarves and foulards, fabrics for neckwear, shirting's, lingerie and others.

The collection further includes fabrics for home furnishings such as prints, and tapestries for linens as well as patterns for draperies and upholsteries.

So far only a small number of fabrics of the collection has been used by various leading fashion designers and manufacturers, but through this site, we now make a portion of the library available to view online.

We are proud to present this unique and remarkable collection for the first time publicly. We do invite you to browse and enjoy these outstanding antique marvels.