Category: Designers
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David Whitehead & Sons Fabrics
The Lancashire textile company David Whitehead & Sons originally set up in 1815, came to prominence in the 1950’s having exhibited at the Festival of Britain in 1951. The company produced some wonderful fabric during the 1950’s by artists and designers such as John Piper, Marian Mahler, Jaqueline Groag, Terence Conran and Henry Moore. Many can be found in the…
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Bernard Wardle Fabric Design
The company Bernard Wardle started in the 1930’s and by the late 40’s were producing a wonderful variety of designs in cotton chintz and hand & roller printed linen for interiors from their base in Stockport, Cheshire. Above picture shows the bee logo on the selvedge of a piece of 1930’s /40’s linen. ‘french garden’ an early…
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Laura Ashley and the Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury set were group of artists and writers of the early 1900’s that included Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, T S Eliot and E M Forster. They were considered both bohemian and intellectual and had a great influence on art and philosophy of the 20th century. Lytton Strachey, sitting, Duncan…
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What People Make with Vintage Fabric – Tim Zercie Tapestries
Artist Tim Zercie is producing some amazing works of art using vintage fabric in his tapestries. Born in the USA he is at present living and working in London and has exhibited in both America and the UK. Check out his website to see more of his work. Tim Zercie ‘A family…
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Collier Campbell Designs
On my treasure hunts for vintage fabrics, among my very favourite finds are the vibrant and colourful designs by Collier Campbell who I have admired for many years. The working design partnership of sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell started in the 1960’s producing work for Liberty, Heals, Habitat and many others. They founded their company together in 1979/80. Their…
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Pat Albeck – Textile designer
Pat Albeck has always been a favourite designer of mine, her career began in the 1950’s designing dress making fabric for Horrockses. Her designs influenced by Scandinavian textiles, French and Italian fashion fabrics. By the 1960’s she became well known for designing dress fabric for ‘dolly rockers’ one of the English boutique labels of the 1960’s, very…
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