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‘Tulip 2’ (1962) and ‘Tulip petal rug’ (1967) by Bernat Klein, National Museum of Scotland

The fine details of art history sometimes needs unpicking for us mere mortals, but here’s a refreshing eample where the story is pretty clear – how Bernat Klein used an abstract oil painting of the colours present in a tulip to inspire a woven textile some years later. Klein often used enlarged close-up photographs of sections of his paintings in the textile design process.

They’re both currently on display in Bernat Klein: Design in Colour at the National Museum of Scotland.