Gaudi
Dress Fabric
1984 (designed)
1984 (designed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Screen-printed and discharge-dyed grey silk dress fabric with a design reminscent of a mosaic of broken china fragments. The fragments depict fragmentary sections of mosaic, architectural drawings (depicting Corinthian pillar finials), and other fragments of pattern in gold, and gold-and-black.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Gaudi (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen-printed silk and discharge-dyed |
| Brief description | Screen-printed and discharge-dyed silk dress fabric 'Gaudi', designed by Helen David for English Eccentrics, Great Britain, 1984 |
| Physical description | Screen-printed and discharge-dyed grey silk dress fabric with a design reminscent of a mosaic of broken china fragments. The fragments depict fragmentary sections of mosaic, architectural drawings (depicting Corinthian pillar finials), and other fragments of pattern in gold, and gold-and-black. |
| Credit line | Given by the makers |
| Object history | One of 4 samples in 4 colourways T.299 to C-1988. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.299C-1988 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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