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Nectar

Furnishing Fabric
1977 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Furnishing fabric of screen printed cotton with a simple square trellis pattern formed by meandering lines with rosebuds at the intersections. Butterflies flit across the trellis at well spaced intervals and it has lateral borders of diagonal stripes. It has a black ground and the pattern is in bright colours of pink, red, green, yellow and blue with black outlines.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleNectar (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Screen printed cotton
Brief description
Furnishing fabric of printed cotton, 'Nectar', designed by Natalie Gibson, manufactured by Heal Fabrics Ltd., Great Britain, 1977
Physical description
Furnishing fabric of screen printed cotton with a simple square trellis pattern formed by meandering lines with rosebuds at the intersections. Butterflies flit across the trellis at well spaced intervals and it has lateral borders of diagonal stripes. It has a black ground and the pattern is in bright colours of pink, red, green, yellow and blue with black outlines.
Dimensions
  • Length: 3m
  • Width: 217cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Top Heal's "Nectar" designed by Natalie Gibson' (Written on selvedge as part of print)
Credit line
Given by Mr F. R. Hutchings
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.35-1978

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Record createdApril 14, 2009
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