Nectar

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Artist/Maker	Heal's Wholesale & Export Limited (manufactured by) Natalie Gibson (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Furnishing fabric of screen printed cotton with a simple square trellis pattern formed by meandering lines with rosebuds at the intersections. Butterflies flit across the trellis at well spaced intervals and it has lateral borders of diagonal stripes. It has a black ground and the pattern is in bright colours of pink, red, green, yellow and blue with black outlines.

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Categories	Textiles Interiors
Object type	Furnishing fabric
Title	Nectar (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Screen printed cotton Cotton Screen Printing
Brief description	Furnishing fabric of printed cotton, 'Nectar', designed by Natalie Gibson, manufactured by Heal Fabrics Ltd., Great Britain, 1977
Physical description	Furnishing fabric of screen printed cotton with a simple square trellis pattern formed by meandering lines with rosebuds at the intersections. Butterflies flit across the trellis at well spaced intervals and it has lateral borders of diagonal stripes. It has a black ground and the pattern is in bright colours of pink, red, green, yellow and blue with black outlines.
Dimensions	Length: 3m Width: 217cm
Marks and inscriptions	'Top Heal's "Nectar" designed by Natalie Gibson' (Written on selvedge as part of print)
Credit line	Given by Mr F. R. Hutchings
Subjects depicted	Butterflies Flowers, Rosebuds Stripes
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.35-1978

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Record created	April 14, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O224405/nectar-furnishing-fabric-natalie-gibson/

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