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Colourtron

Furnishing Fabric
1967-1968 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Eight colourways of screen printed cotton with a geometric linear design monochrome ground. Each has a label on the front and they are sewn together. All have one selvedge and two or three pinked edges. This is the same design as T.953-2000.
The selvedge contains the following printed text or parts thereof: ' COLOURTRON PROGRAMMED PATTERN WARNER'S STUDIO RANGE '. The part numbering follows the numbers given on some of the labels.


Object details

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Object type
Parts
This object consists of 9 parts.

  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
Titles
  • Colourtron (manufacturer's title)
  • Studio Range (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Screen printed cotton
Brief description
Eight colourways of screen printed cotton with a geometric linear design in beige, pink and purple on orange ground, furnishing fabric, 20th century.
Physical description
Eight colourways of screen printed cotton with a geometric linear design monochrome ground. Each has a label on the front and they are sewn together. All have one selvedge and two or three pinked edges. This is the same design as T.953-2000.
The selvedge contains the following printed text or parts thereof: ' COLOURTRON PROGRAMMED PATTERN WARNER'S STUDIO RANGE '. The part numbering follows the numbers given on some of the labels.
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Gallery label
Displayed to the left: 'Electronic Textiles' screen-printed cotton furnishing fabrics designed by Eddie Squires for Warner and Sons Ltd; British, 1967 These are some of the colourways of three designs which formed a Collection called Programmed Pattern, produced in March 1967. This trio reflects Eddie Squires' fascination with the technologies which began to revolutionise communication in the late 1960s and numerous painted designs and images pasted into his scrapbooks look forward to the age of computer based design. Resembling Paolozzi's screen prints on paper, the acid bright clashing colours are influenced by the prevailing vogue for Pop Art and psychedelia. The repeating forms of the Programmed Pattern fabrics are geometric and regular, yet they appear to undulate across the textile. The fabric sold for £1 4s 6d per yard. The following passage is from an article about Eddie Squires in The Sunday Times 18 February 1968: "Each year his job is to produce three modern designs to add spice to what is predominantly a traditional collection. … The idea for this new Programmed Pattern collection came to him while window shopping at Zeev Aram's furniture shop in Chelsea - a mecca for all architects and designers and he admits the place he would most like to see his fabrics hanging is in Mr Aram's hitherto all-white showroom." Colourtron: Colour television broadcasting began in Europe in 1967 and this design resembles a magnified view of the integrated silicon circuit used in an electronic colour TV camera. T.954:3, 4, 5 & 6-2000; T.953-2000(09/07/2001)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Eddie Squires
Collection
Accession number
T.954:1-2000

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Record createdJanuary 11, 2001
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