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Wangle

Furnishing Fabric
ca. 1935 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Originally a painter, Enid Marx joined the textile workshop of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in 1925. She subsequently set up her own workshop in Hampstead where she continued to produce textiles until 1939. Most of her block-printed designs are characterised by their purity of colour and bold, abstract pattern repeats.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWangle (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Printed cotton
Brief description
Furnishing fabric 'Wangle' of dyed cotton, designed by Enid Marx, England, ca. 1935
Physical description
Furnishing fabric of two-colour print on a dyed cotton ground. Printed in black and woven on a yellow ground.
Summary
Originally a painter, Enid Marx joined the textile workshop of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in 1925. She subsequently set up her own workshop in Hampstead where she continued to produce textiles until 1939. Most of her block-printed designs are characterised by their purity of colour and bold, abstract pattern repeats.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.321-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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