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Hands

Dress Fabric
1986 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pale blue silk dress fabric screen-printed and discharge-dyed. The design includes white linear spirals and curlicues, thicker black and white striped motifs, and replications of vintage palmistry charts.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleHands
Materials and techniques
Screen-printed silk and discharge dyed
Brief description
Silk dress fabric 'Hands' screen-printed and discharge-dyed, designed by Helen David for English Eccentrics, Great Britain, 1986
Physical description
Pale blue silk dress fabric screen-printed and discharge-dyed. The design includes white linear spirals and curlicues, thicker black and white striped motifs, and replications of vintage palmistry charts.
Credit line
Given by the makers
Object history
One of three fabrics in three colourways T.297 to B-1988.
Collection
Accession number
T.297B-1988

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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