Tropic
Dress Fabric
1959 (designed)
1959 (designed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Born in Trinidad and trained in London, Althea McNish was quickly taken up by the thriving British textile industry in the late 1950s. She had a successful career as a freelance designer to companies such as Heal Fabrics, Ascher, Hull Traders, Liberty and Edinburgh Weavers before working on hand-painted textile hangings. Her designs are characterised by a vibrant choice of colour and free, painterly arrangements.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Tropic (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed silk |
| Brief description | Dress fabric 'Tropic' sample swatch of printed silk, designed by Althea McNish, made by Ascher Ltd., Great Britain, 1959 |
| Physical description | Swatch holding printed silk dress fabric samples in five different colourways. |
| Dimensions |
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| Credit line | Given by Zika Ascher |
| Object history | Registered File number 88/1414, taken from Departmental Record |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Born in Trinidad and trained in London, Althea McNish was quickly taken up by the thriving British textile industry in the late 1950s. She had a successful career as a freelance designer to companies such as Heal Fabrics, Ascher, Hull Traders, Liberty and Edinburgh Weavers before working on hand-painted textile hangings. Her designs are characterised by a vibrant choice of colour and free, painterly arrangements. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.192-1988 |
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| Record created | August 21, 2007 |
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