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Barkcloth

Furnishing Fabric
1954-1957 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Screen printed cotton furnishing fabric with a negative design in white on black. The pattern includes bicycles, clock-faces, numbers and alphabet letters contained within a series of spirals, parallell lines, spots and geometric shapes.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBarkcloth (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
screen-printed cotton twill
Brief description
Screen printed cotton twill furnishing fabric, 'Barkcloth', designed by Eduardo Paolozzi & Nigel Henderson for Hammer Prints, English, c. 1954
Physical description
Screen printed cotton furnishing fabric with a negative design in white on black. The pattern includes bicycles, clock-faces, numbers and alphabet letters contained within a series of spirals, parallell lines, spots and geometric shapes.
Dimensions
  • Length: 191cm
  • Width: 120cm
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Walsh, Victoria. Nigel Henderson Parallel of Life and Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. p.138
  • Rayner, Geoffrey, Chamberlain, Richard and Stapleton, Annamarie. Artists' Textiles in Britain 1945-1970: A Democratic Art. Antique Collectors Club, 2003. p.52
Collection
Accession number
T.111-2011

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Record createdMay 25, 2011
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