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Dress fabric

Dress fabric

  • Place of origin:

    Lyon, France (made)

  • Date:

    1934 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Bianchini-Férier (designer and maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Screen-printed crêpe

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Manchester Design Registry

  • Museum number:

    T.243-1987

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

  • Image in copyright

This crepe dress fabric is printed with a repeat of small bunches of flowers, stems and leaves, in white and red, on a black background. Floral printed fabrics held a prominent place in every smart woman's wardrobe in the 1930s. Motifs floating on a plain ground worked admirably; navy, black and brown background colours were perennially in vogue. The use of floral decoration on cloth was hardly new but the flowers of the 1930s blossomed with fresh life and vigour. Detailed, naturalistic representations in the traditional manner were replaced with a freedom of line and form closely allied to contemporary movements in the fine and graphic arts.

Physical description

Dress fabric of screen-printed crêpe printed with a repeat of small bunches of flowers, stems and leaves in white and red on a black background.

Place of Origin

Lyon, France (made)

Date

1934 (made)

Artist/maker

Bianchini-Férier (designer and maker)

Materials and Techniques

Screen-printed crêpe

Object history note

Registered File number 1974/3231.
Registration number 343044.

Descriptive line

Dress fabric of screen-printed crêpe, made by Bianchini-Férier, Lyon, 1934

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Thirties Floral Fabrics. Series 3 (The Victoria & Albert colour books). London : Michael Joseph, published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988

Materials

Crepe

Techniques

Screen printed

Subjects depicted

Flowers; Leaves

Categories

Textiles; Clothing; Fashion

Production Type

Mass produced

Collection code

T&F

Qr_O89512
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