Watercolors of design ideas for silk. Antonio Ratti, textile designer. Born in 1915, in 1945 he transformed his Como, Italy drawing studio into “Tessitura Serica Antonio Ratti.”

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Silk textile design Number 10. Undated. Como, Italy. Gouache in green, orange, white, and black. Antonio Ratti, designer. Stamped Francis Clivio & Company with the Clivio log on the card. Francis Clivio & Company was a Como manufacturer of silk to be made into ties. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/6031/antonio-ratti-gouache-silk-textile-design-no-10
Silk textile design Number 11. Undated. Como, Italy. Gouache in green, orange, white, and black. Antonio Ratti, designer. Stamped Francis Clivio & Company with the Clivio logo on the card. Francis Clivio & Company was a Como manufacturer of silk to be made into ties. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/6032/antonio-ratti-gouache-silk-textile-design-no-11
Geometric objects in a circular image. Silk textile design Number 3, Undated. Como, Italy. Gouache in black, red, and white. Antonio Ratti, designer. Stamped Tessile Serica Italiana Francis Clivio & C. Como with logo on the card. Francis Clivio & Company was a Como manufacturer of silk to be made into ties. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/6024/antonio-ratti-gouache-silk-textile-design-no-3
Exotic fish motif textile design. Undated. Como, Italy. Gouache in red, yellow and black. Antonio Ratti, designer. Stamped Schizzi Novita E Disegni Como on the reverse. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/6027/antonio-ratti-gouache-silk-textile-design-no-6

Silk textile design Number 9. Undated. Como, Italy. Gouache in purple, white, and black. Antonio Ratti, designer. Stamped Francis Clivio & Company with the Clivio logo on the card. Francis Clivio & Company was a Como manufacturer of silk to be made into ties. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/6030/antonio-ratti-gouache-silk-textile-design-no-9

It looks like Ratti did design work for Francis Clivo & C either as a contractor or an employee. Ratti’s firm is still around, too.

I know more about art than I do about textile design. I do know, because my maternal grandmother worked in the 1920s-early 1930s New York City fashion and textile industry where she did a bunch of things but textile design was one of them. She was very good at putting colors together and Antonio Ratti was too as you can see.

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