Textile Design
c.1960 (made)
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The design is of birds and flowers on a grid. It is a design for a textile by Jacqueline Groag, a Czechoslovakian who emigrated to Great Britain and worked as a textile designer. The technique that Groag used of scratching through thick oil or acrylic paint, a technique known as sgraffito, in which the pale paint beneath the dark painted background is exposed shows how she used the design as a way of producing particular effects to be reproduced in a printed textile.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Oil or acrylic paint on paper with sgraffito decoration. |
| Brief description | Jacqueline Groag. Textile design. Birds and flowers in sgraffito technique. British, early 1960s. |
| Physical description | The design looks as though it is scratched through thick oil or acrylic paint, using the sgraffito technique of decoration, to expose the pale paper beneath. The painted background is dark. The design is of birds and flowers in a grid. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'JACQUELINE GROAG' (In pencil on the border, bottom left front below the design.) |
| Credit line | Given by Margaret Timmers |
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| Summary | The design is of birds and flowers on a grid. It is a design for a textile by Jacqueline Groag, a Czechoslovakian who emigrated to Great Britain and worked as a textile designer. The technique that Groag used of scratching through thick oil or acrylic paint, a technique known as sgraffito, in which the pale paint beneath the dark painted background is exposed shows how she used the design as a way of producing particular effects to be reproduced in a printed textile. |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is taken from Galloway, Francesca, 'Post-War British Textiles'. Robert Marcuson Publishing, London, 2002:
"Jacqueline Groag, a Czech by birth, was a talented textile designer, as well-known and as influential as [Lucienne] Day in the 1950s; she continued designing textiles until the 1980s. Groag was a student of Josef Hoffmann and Franz Cizek in Vienna and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before moving to Paris in 1929. There she designed dress fabrics for Chanel, Schiaparelli and Lanvin. She married the architect and follower of Adolf Loos, Jacques Groag, whose preference for severe functionalism in architecture had some influence on her style. They moved to London in 1939 where her success must have been immediate given the number of textiles she designed for the 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition at the V&A in 1946. The columnar design, launched by David Whitehead for the Festival of Britain in 1951, was adapted from an earlier design commissioned from Groag by the Rayon Design Centre in 1948." |
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| Accession number | E.944-2000 |
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| Record created | March 1, 2001 |
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