Festival of Britain
Scarf
1951 (made)
1951 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Scarf of block-printed silk.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Festival of Britain (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Block-printed silk |
| Brief description | Scarf 'Festival of Britain' of block-printed silk, designed by Joyce Clissold for Footprints, Great Britain, 1951 |
| Physical description | Scarf of block-printed silk. |
| Credit line | Given by Miss Olive Budd |
| Object history | Registered File number 1989/1433. In 1933 Joyce Clissold took over as director of Footprints, a company founded by Edith Celandine Kennington in the 1920s. This group of textile designers specialised in block printing by hand and favoured the earthy colours of natural dyes. The technique requires a block carved with a design which is covered in ink or dye and applied with pressure to the textile. The repeat pattern is the same size as the block. Commemorative scarfs are a particularly collectable genre. This one celebrates the 1951 Festival of Britain, held to celebrate postwar innovations in science and technology, including the harnessing of nuclear energy and the beginnings of space exploration. The shapes of such futuristic-looking structures as the Dome of Discovery and the Skylon are thus represented using a paradoxically traditional craft method. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.76-1990 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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