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Millennium card for Tim

Greetings Card
1999 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painter and art historian Janet Davis produced this one-off experimental knitted card specially to commemorate the Millennium and to feature in "Best Wishes", a display of contemporary greetings cards in the Twentieth Century Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Using new materials such as laser-treated holographic acetate and high-gloss foiled Mirri-card in the fashionable colours of purple, lilac and silver, the artist captured the style of the Millennium celebrations and indulged the taste for glitz of the card's recipient, the curator of the display.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleMillennium card for Tim (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Knitted laser-treated holographic acetate and cotton yarn over mirri card
Brief description
Knitted Millennium greetings card by Janet Davis
Physical description
Portrait format lavender cotton knit greeting featuring two Ms, one above the other. These represent the Roman numerals for 2000, the year this card commemorates, knitted from laser-treated plastic yarn.
Dimensions
  • Height: 37.2cm
  • Width: 20.5cm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • MM
  • To Tim,/ Happy/ New/ Millennium!/ Lots of Love,/ Janet/ xxx (written on reverse in synthetic purple glitter paint)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Production
Reason For Production: Private
Subjects depicted
Summary
Painter and art historian Janet Davis produced this one-off experimental knitted card specially to commemorate the Millennium and to feature in "Best Wishes", a display of contemporary greetings cards in the Twentieth Century Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Using new materials such as laser-treated holographic acetate and high-gloss foiled Mirri-card in the fashionable colours of purple, lilac and silver, the artist captured the style of the Millennium celebrations and indulged the taste for glitz of the card's recipient, the curator of the display.
Collection
Accession number
E.929-2000

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Record createdApril 22, 2004
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