Tag: history
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Morris & Co Textiles and The Red House
The Red House is an important Arts and Crafts building in Bexleyheath, Southeast London. Designed in 1859 by architect Philip Webb as a home for William Morris it was completed in 1860. Although Webb was the architect it was known as Morris’s ‘brainchild’ photo by Ethan Doyle White Unable to find suitable textiles and furnishings…
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The Art of John Piper in Fabric and Textiles.
John Piper (1903–1992) is one of the most significant British artists of the twentieth-century. An official war artist during the 2nd world war, he came to prominence soon after, known for paintings, tapestries and designing large scale glass windows, such as those in Liverpool and Coventry Cathedrals. The ‘rerados’ tapestry in Chichester Cathedral 1966 Many…
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The History of Paisley Fabric
Paisley is a design that is many hundreds of years old and can be traced back to ancient Persia, now Iran. The fashion for using the pattern spread to many other Asian and Indian countries over the following centuries and it was in the Moghul period between the years 1526-1764 that it became the…
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