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Our Town

Furnishing Fabric
1954 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Schiffer Prints (designed for)
Wormley, Edward J (designer)
Place of origin
New York (made)

Furnishing fabric screen-printed with a repeating design of closely-packed city buildings in brown, grey, black and cream on a white ground

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Interiors
Object type
Furnishing fabric
TitleOur Town (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Screen Printing
Brief description
Furnishing fabric, screen-printed, 1954, USA, designed by Edward Wormley for Schiffer Prints NY. "Our Town"
Physical description
Furnishing fabric screen-printed with a repeating design of closely-packed city buildings in brown, grey, black and cream on a white ground
Dimensions
  • Length: 76.2cm (Note: converted from department register)
  • Width: 66cm (Note: converted from department register)
Credit line
Given by Schiffer Prints
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
CIRC.150A-1954

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O269227/our-town-furnishing-fabric-wormley-edward-j/
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