Ondine

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Artist/Maker	Heal's Wholesale & Export Limited (manufactured by) Brown, Barbara (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Furnishing fabric of screen-printed cotton satin. With an abstract design of large black circles and rectangles printed in black on a white ground. Superimposed on this is a regular pattern of large grey dots and a random distribution of smaller dots at the edges of the large dotted area. The rectangles which spring from the selvedge have no dots in their central area, whereas the circles at the centre of the design are invaded by the smaller dots.

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Categories	Textiles Interiors
Object type	Furnishing fabric
Title	Ondine (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Screen-printed cotton satin
Brief description	Furnishing fabric 'Ondine' of screen-printed cotton satin, designed by Barbara Brown for Heal Fabrics Ltd., Great Britain, 1971
Physical description	Furnishing fabric of screen-printed cotton satin. With an abstract design of large black circles and rectangles printed in black on a white ground. Superimposed on this is a regular pattern of large grey dots and a random distribution of smaller dots at the edges of the large dotted area. The rectangles which spring from the selvedge have no dots in their central area, whereas the circles at the centre of the design are invaded by the smaller dots.
Dimensions	Repeat length: 67cm Length: 268cm Width: 125.5cm
Marks and inscriptions	Top Heals Ondine Designed by Barbara Brown Shrink Resisting (Printed on the selvedge) Woven and printed in England (Printed on the selvedge) 'Number WE 3620 length 3" ' (On paper label)
Credit line	Given by Heal Fabrics Ltd.
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	CIRC.148-1976

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O268701/ondine-furnishing-fabric-brown-barbara/

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