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Delores

Furnishing Fabric
1964 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Warner and Sons (manufacturer)
Squires, Eddie (designers)
Place of origin
Milton Keynes (manufactured)
Great Britain (manufactured)

Sample of screen printed cotton, dark blue with rounded shapes filled with concentric circles in green and various shades of purple and blue. Three edges are pinked, the cardboard sleeve is glued to the fourth. A typed label on it reads ' THE TEXTILE COUNCIL Furnishing Print "DELORES" from Warner's 'Theme of the Thirties' Range - produced for Nov. 1964 Eddie Squires, Warner & Sons Ltd., Mappin House, 4, Winsley Street, Oxford Street, London, W1N 0AS '.

Object details

Category
Textiles
Object type
Furnishing fabric
Titles
  • Delores (manufacturer's title)
  • Theme on the Thirties (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Screen printed cotton with glued on cardboard sleeve
Brief description
Sample of screen printed cotton, dark blue with rounded shapes filled with concentric circles in purple, green and blue, furnishing fabric, 20th century.
Physical description
Sample of screen printed cotton, dark blue with rounded shapes filled with concentric circles in green and various shades of purple and blue. Three edges are pinked, the cardboard sleeve is glued to the fourth. A typed label on it reads ' THE TEXTILE COUNCIL Furnishing Print "DELORES" from Warner's 'Theme of the Thirties' Range - produced for Nov. 1964 Eddie Squires, Warner & Sons Ltd., Mappin House, 4, Winsley Street, Oxford Street, London, W1N 0AS '.
Dimensions
  • Width: 60cm
  • Length: 60.5cm
  • Including cardboard length: 65.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
Gallery label
Screen-printing

The textiles displayed in this Gallery were screen-printed; it is a method ideally suited to bold motifs and vivid areas of colour. The design is first drawn or photographically printed onto a celluloid sheet and then is transferred onto a silk screen by applying light sensitive gelatine to the screen and placing the celluloid sheet with the design on top of it and exposing both to light. Where light has reached the silk screen the gelatine hardens and becomes insoluble. The rest of the screen, where the design has blocked out the light, stays gelatinous and this is washed away, leaving clear only the parts of the screen which carry the design. A separate screen is created for every part of the design which will be printed in a different colour. In production the silk screen is placed over the plain fabric and then the appropriate colour is applied as a thick paste, forced through the screen onto the fabric beneath.

Displayed to the left:

Delores
Sample of screen-printed cotton furnishing fabric
Designed by Eddie Squires for Warner and Sons Ltd
British, produced in November 1964
T.990-2000
Credit line
Bequeathed by Eddie Squires
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.959-2000

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Record createdDecember 7, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O50136/delores-furnishing-fabric-squires-eddie/
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