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Furnishing Fabric

ca. 1897 (made)
Artist/Maker
John G Crace & Son (manufacturer)
A.W. Pugin (designer)
Pugin, Edward Welby (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Two lengths of glazed and block-printed linen window-blind fabrics in dark maroon against a sepia-cream background. Repeating Gothic-style pattern of a 5-petal flower with thistle leaves.

Object details

Categories
Interiors
Textiles
Object type
Furnishing fabric
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Furnishing Fabric
  • Furnishing Fabric
Materials and techniques
Block-printed and glazed linen
Linen (Material)
Printed
Glazed
Brief description
Two lengths of glazed and block-printed linen window-blind fabrics, possibly designed by A.W.N. Pugin or E.W. Pugin, made by John G Crace & Son, Great Britain, ca. 1897
Physical description
Two lengths of glazed and block-printed linen window-blind fabrics in dark maroon against a sepia-cream background. Repeating Gothic-style pattern of a 5-petal flower with thistle leaves.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 82mm (Note: diameter of roll in CB8/17/5)
  • Diameter: 82mm (Note: Diameter of roll in CB8/17/6)
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'PRIVATE DESIGN / IOHN G GRACE & SON / 38 WIGMORE ST LONDON' (Printed on bottom of textile.)
  • '8030 MLOCAN' (Printed on bottom of textile. Pattern number and printer.)
Object history
Produced by the London decorators' shop of John G.Crace, and it is almost certainly, from an earlier design by A.W.N. Pugin or his son A.W.Pugin. The fabric would have been printed for Crace by a firm of commission printers, probably Thomas Clarkson of Bannister Hall in Lancashire (a firm known to have produced work for the Crace firm earlier in the nineteenth century) or Stead McAlpin & Co. of Carlisle. This example is likely to have been a special printing for one customer or house, as suggested by the printed legend: 'Private Design'.
Subject depicted
Thistles (Plants)
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.466:1, 2-1997

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Record createdAugust 1, 2008
Record URL
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