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Gaudi

Dress Fabric
1984 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Screen-printed and discharge-dyed grey silk dress fabric with a design reminscent of a mosaic of broken china fragments. The fragments depict fragmentary sections of mosaic, architectural drawings (depicting Corinthian pillar finials), and other fragments of pattern in gold, and gold-and-black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGaudi (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Screen-printed silk and discharge-dyed
Brief description
Screen-printed and discharge-dyed silk dress fabric 'Gaudi', designed by Helen David for English Eccentrics, Great Britain, 1984
Physical description
Screen-printed and discharge-dyed grey silk dress fabric with a design reminscent of a mosaic of broken china fragments. The fragments depict fragmentary sections of mosaic, architectural drawings (depicting Corinthian pillar finials), and other fragments of pattern in gold, and gold-and-black.
Credit line
Given by the makers
Object history
One of 4 samples in 4 colourways T.299 to C-1988.
Collection
Accession number
T.299B-1988

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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