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Pasco

Furnishing Fabric
(made)
Artist/Maker
Hull Traders Ltd. (designed for)
Shirley Craven (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

From 1960 Shirley Craven (b.1934) worked as a design and colour consultant for the avant-garde textile manufacturers, Hull Traders Ltd and in 1963 became a director of the firm. She is noted for her strong, abstract designs several of which received Council of Industrial Design Awards in the 1960s. She taught textile design at Goldsmiths College from the early 1960s until 1994.
Hull Traders Ltd of Trawden, Colne, Lancashire, was founded in 1957 by Tristram Hull to produce short runs of screen-printed furnishing fabrics. In 1980 the company became part of Badehome Ltd which was dissolved in 1982.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
SCRAN
Object type
Furnishing fabric
TitlePasco (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Printed cotton satin
Cotton (Textile)
Satin Weave
Screen Printing
Brief description
Furnishing fabric 'Pasco' of printed downproof cotton satin, designed by Shirley Craven for Hull Traders Ltd., Great Britain, 1961
Physical description
Furnishing fabric of printed downproof cotton satin produced in 3 colourways. One longer section of two and a half repeats with two further smaller pieces attached across the width at the top showing further colourways.
Dimensions
  • Largest textile blue green colourway width: 1256mm (Maximum) (Note: Measured along top, overlocked edge)
  • Largest textile blue green colourway length: 1400mm (Maximum)
  • Small sample grey orange colourway width: 630mm (Maximum)
  • Small sample brown purple red colourway width: 630mm (Maximum)
  • Small sample grey orange colourway length: 692mm (Maximum)
  • Small sample purple brown red colourway length: 656mm (Maximum)
Measured by conservation
Credit line
Given by the makers
Object history
Registered File number 1977/2184.
Summary
From 1960 Shirley Craven (b.1934) worked as a design and colour consultant for the avant-garde textile manufacturers, Hull Traders Ltd and in 1963 became a director of the firm. She is noted for her strong, abstract designs several of which received Council of Industrial Design Awards in the 1960s. She taught textile design at Goldsmiths College from the early 1960s until 1994.
Hull Traders Ltd of Trawden, Colne, Lancashire, was founded in 1957 by Tristram Hull to produce short runs of screen-printed furnishing fabrics. In 1980 the company became part of Badehome Ltd which was dissolved in 1982.
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.143-1989

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Record createdNovember 11, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69741/pasco-furnishing-fabric-shirley-craven/
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