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West Wind

Furnishing Fabric
1932 (designed)
Artist/Maker
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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWest 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.


Dimensions
  • Length: 148in
  • Width: 48in
  • Length: 375.9cm
  • Width: 121.9cm
  • Diameter: 99mm
Credit line
Given by Mrs Graham Rawson
Collection
Accession number
T.130-1972

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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