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Zeme

Furnishing Fabric
1981 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Heal & Son Ltd (designed for)
Wills, Leslee (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Furnishing fabric with bands of patterned zig-zags, overlaid with geometric shapes containing snake motifs in red, burgundy and pink on a white ground


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Interiors
Object type
Furnishing fabric
TitleZeme (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
printed cotton
Brief description
'Zeme', printed cotton furnishing fabric by Leslee Wills for Heals, Britain, 1981
Physical description
Furnishing fabric with bands of patterned zig-zags, overlaid with geometric shapes containing snake motifs in red, burgundy and pink on a white ground
Dimensions
  • Width: 122cm
  • Length: 130cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'HEAL FABRICS OF LONDON ENGLAND 100% COTTON HEALS "ZEME" DESIGNED BY LESLEE WILLS' (English; Selvage)
  • 'Not practicable too dangerous for staining and mark off' (English; Hand-written; Selvage)
Credit line
Given by Heal & Son Ltd.
Object history
Acquired in 1995 as part of the Heal's archive
Production
Reason For Production: Retail
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.549:7-1999

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Record createdJuly 17, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O41701/zeme-furnishing-fabric-wills-leslee/
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