1940s-1950s: UTILITY/AUSTERITY - TEXTILE DESIGN
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FFS00596 AIAB Utility stamped turquoise and brown check dress fabric
Utility stamp, left hand corner, 1940s
(Utility)
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FFS00270 CoID 'Ticker Tape', grey, yellow, red, sage.
'Spectator', green, navy/green/black/red, khaki, maroon.
Designed by Lucienne Day for Heals furnishings, 1953
(contemporary)
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FFS00271 CoID Left 'Bouquet Garni' four colour ways
Right 'Black Leaf' four colour ways
Centre 'Too Many Cooks' five colour ways
Tea towels designed by Lucienne Day , 1959
(contemporary, domesticity, organic)
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FFS00269 CoID Designed by Marian Mahler and manufactured by David Whitehead Ltd, 1952
This contemporary design of a swinging ‘mobile’ was available in three colour ways.
(contemporary)
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FFS00273 CoID Textiles produced by the Glasgow School of Art, 1954
(contemporary, organic)
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FFS00272 CoID 'Inglewood', designed by Humphrey Spender, architect, photographer & textile lecturer at the Royal College of Art, for Edinburgh Weavers, 1958
Five colour ways
(organic)
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FFS00597 AIAB 1950s screen printed fabric in mustard/cream by Karen Willinger
(contemporary, organic)
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FFS00598 AIAB 1950s screen printed fabric in maroon/cream. Donkey and floral design reflecting the impact of increasing foreign travel.
(contemporary, foreign travel, organic)
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FFS00599 AIAB Karen Willinger screen printed designs (furnishing), 1951
'La Chasse', top image of a dog and horse in the country, mauve & blue
'Borogrove', birds and leaves, red & white
(contemporary, organic)
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FFS00600 AIAB Neville Walters screen printed fabric design for David Whitehead Ltd, 1950s.
Line drawings of historic steam boats, trains and hot-air balloons.
Pale grey/pale yellow/pale pink on white background.
(contemporary)
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FFS00605 AIAB Terence Conran 1950s screen printed fabric for David Whitehead Ltd.
Pink/brown/cream abstract symbols.
(contemporary, colour)
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TEXTS
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Anthea M. Jarvis, ‘British Cotton Couture, British Fashion and the Cotton Board, 1941-1969, in Costume, Number 31, 1997, pp. 92-99.
Lesley Jackson, Robin and Lucienne Day, Pioneers of Contemporary Design, Mitchell Beazley, London, 2001.
Sally MacDonald and Julia Porter, Putting On the Style: setting up home in the 1950s, The Geffyre Museum/Christie’s, London, 1990.
Alan Peat, David Whitehead Ltd, Artist Designed Textiles 1952-1969, Oldham Leisure Services, Oldham, 1993.
Mary Schoeser and Celia Rufey, English and American textiles from 1790 to the present, Thames and Hudson, USA, 1989.
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