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Surrey

Textile Design
1951 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Warner & Sons Ltd. (manufacturer)
Marianne Straub (designer)
Place of origin
Britain (designed)

Working drawing for a furnishing fabric, body-colour, squared in pencil for transfer, based on crystal structure of afwillite.

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Paintings
Designs
Object type
Textile design
TitleSurrey (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Gouache on paper with pencil squaring.
Gouache
Pencil
Painting
Drawing
Brief description
Marianne Straub. 'Surrey'. Design for a woven textile based on the afwillite crystal structure, British, 1951.
Physical description
Working drawing for a furnishing fabric, body-colour, squared in pencil for transfer, based on crystal structure of afwillite.
Dimensions
  • Height: 89cm
  • Width: 100.4cm
Dimensions taken from Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983
Subjects depicted
Pattern (Design Element)
Crystals
Textile
Furnishings
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983
  • John Murdoch and Susan Lambert, Summary Catalogue of Textile Designs 1840-1985 in the V. & A. Museum and colour microfiche, Surrey: Emmett Microform, 1986
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.567-1980

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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