Granby Workshop; textile sample 'BRICK PRINT', in terracotta, 2015-2016

White Cotton printed on with terrecotta ink, the print is comprised of series of parallel lines, each line has the same block used across but the blocks used vary line to line.

The repetitive geometric patterns of the fabric produced by Granby Workshop are created with timber off cuts. It is wood block printing in it's simplest form; wood off cuts are inked up with a roller and printed directly onto the fabric. Some patterns are created using many blocks while other use one. The stricture of the wood is imprinted onto the fabric. The hands of the individual makers interpret the pattern designs, creating variation across the runs of the fabric. The fabric cones in five key pattern styles. All of which are represented in the V&As collection.

Information sourced and adapted from Granby Workshop, catalogue 2015.

This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize.

CD.111-2016