Dress Fabric
1930 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Alex Walker was inspired by his contact with French artist Raoul Dufy who also designed fashion textiles. Walker's own painterly designs were often based on landscapes in Cornwall where he he founded Cryséde Silks. This sample is stamped with its 1930 Manchester Design Registry number which protected it from use by other manufacturers.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Block-printed silk crêpe de chine.
Plain weave |
| Brief description | Hand block printed silk dress fabric, 1930, British; Walker, Alec for Cryséde. Reg. 292293 |
| Physical description | Pattern of tree clumps in pale orange, vivid green and blue on a bright red ground. 292293 printed in black, top right front. |
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| Style | |
| Credit line | Given by Manchester Design Registry |
| Summary | Alex Walker was inspired by his contact with French artist Raoul Dufy who also designed fashion textiles. Walker's own painterly designs were often based on landscapes in Cornwall where he he founded Cryséde Silks. This sample is stamped with its 1930 Manchester Design Registry number which protected it from use by other manufacturers. |
| Bibliographic reference | Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6.
This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.67-1979 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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