Salisbury Festival
Design
1998 (designed)
1998 (designed)
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Silk hanging designed by Ali Pretty in 1998 for a window at Salisbury Cathedral, as part of the Salisbury Festival in 1999. It is a scale drawing for a 40x45ft hand painted hanging, and formed one of two commissioned for the Salisbury Festival in 1999. The design was created for the West Window of Salisbury Cathedral which was also the inspiration for the design, with the other design being for The Rose Window. The design was applied on silk using the Batik technique and Ali worked with Sonya Shah to make the work in a grain barn outside Salisbury. The layers of colour were made up using procion dyes and layers of wax, taking three weeks to make both hangings.
The hangings formed part of a larger installation around the cathedral, where Ali Pretty worked with 100 local people to create an avenue of silk mobiles.
The hangings formed part of a larger installation around the cathedral, where Ali Pretty worked with 100 local people to create an avenue of silk mobiles.
Object details
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| Title | Salisbury Festival (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Black ink and pencil on blue and white graph paper |
| Brief description | Silk hanging design by Ali Pretty for Salisbury Cathedral, as part of the Salisbury Festival, 1999 |
| Physical description | A black ink and pencil design on white graph paper with blue lines. The design is for a silk hanging over a window at Salisbury Cathedral. It uses irregular triangular and square shapes to form diamond patterns and circles in the design. There are also measurement lines to provide the scale in ft. |
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| Credit line | Given by Ali Pretty |
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| Summary | Silk hanging designed by Ali Pretty in 1998 for a window at Salisbury Cathedral, as part of the Salisbury Festival in 1999. It is a scale drawing for a 40x45ft hand painted hanging, and formed one of two commissioned for the Salisbury Festival in 1999. The design was created for the West Window of Salisbury Cathedral which was also the inspiration for the design, with the other design being for The Rose Window. The design was applied on silk using the Batik technique and Ali worked with Sonya Shah to make the work in a grain barn outside Salisbury. The layers of colour were made up using procion dyes and layers of wax, taking three weeks to make both hangings. The hangings formed part of a larger installation around the cathedral, where Ali Pretty worked with 100 local people to create an avenue of silk mobiles. |
| Other number | THM/426/10/1/3 - Archive number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.305-2016 |
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| Record created | May 24, 2016 |
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