West Wind
Furnishing Fabric
1932 (designed)
1932 (designed)
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| Place of origin |
Furnishing fabric of screen-printed rayon and cotton. In three colours, with a satin finish, and a mid-weight furnishing length.
Made of cream warp face rayon (satin finish) and cotton (coarse fibres), and screen printed with an all over and free sub-pattern in russet, suggestive of foliage and fruits, surrounding a widely spaced drop repeat of loose frames containing either a naked goddess covering herself with a cloak and moving to the right, or a zephyr facing right in russet, light green and deep pink.
Made of cream warp face rayon (satin finish) and cotton (coarse fibres), and screen printed with an all over and free sub-pattern in russet, suggestive of foliage and fruits, surrounding a widely spaced drop repeat of loose frames containing either a naked goddess covering herself with a cloak and moving to the right, or a zephyr facing right in russet, light green and deep pink.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | West Wind (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen-printed rayon and cotton |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric 'West Wind' of screen-printed rayon and cotton, designed by Duncan Grant for Allan Walton Textiles, London, 1932 |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of screen-printed rayon and cotton. In three colours, with a satin finish, and a mid-weight furnishing length. Made of cream warp face rayon (satin finish) and cotton (coarse fibres), and screen printed with an all over and free sub-pattern in russet, suggestive of foliage and fruits, surrounding a widely spaced drop repeat of loose frames containing either a naked goddess covering herself with a cloak and moving to the right, or a zephyr facing right in russet, light green and deep pink. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Graham Rawson |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.130-1972 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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