Furnishing Fabric
ca. 1900 (made)
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George Walton (1867–1933) was an architect and designer, who had no formal architectural training. He left school early, became a bank clerk and attended evening classes at Glasgow School of Art, and in 1888 started his own interior decoration and design firm, George Walton & Co. He was much admired in mainland Europe, promoted alongside Baillie Scott and C.R. Mackintosh. Most of Walton’s textile designs have special relevance to the interiors he designed and were used, like the stencilled linen seen here, as wall hangings. This example was used in Elm Bank House, a house that Walton decorated for Sidney Leetham on the Mount leading to Knavesmire in York.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk and linen |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric of silk and linen, designed by George Walton. Glasgow. ca.1900 |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of silk and linen; the design is of vertical curving stems bearing roses and other conventional flowers interspersed with rows of rose leaves and falling rose petals. The patterns are well-spaced and repeated twice in each width. The ground is cream linen, the flowers and leaves in red, blue, mauve, beige, grey and green silk. The fabric is fastened to a long wooden stick. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs George Walton |
| Object history | Used in Elm Bank House, a house that Walton decorated for Sidney Leetham on the Mount leading to Knavesmire in York. Design E.336-1974 on tracing paper from Morton Sundour. |
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| Summary | George Walton (1867–1933) was an architect and designer, who had no formal architectural training. He left school early, became a bank clerk and attended evening classes at Glasgow School of Art, and in 1888 started his own interior decoration and design firm, George Walton & Co. He was much admired in mainland Europe, promoted alongside Baillie Scott and C.R. Mackintosh. Most of Walton’s textile designs have special relevance to the interiors he designed and were used, like the stencilled linen seen here, as wall hangings. This example was used in Elm Bank House, a house that Walton decorated for Sidney Leetham on the Mount leading to Knavesmire in York. |
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| Accession number | T.64-1946 |
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| Record created | September 6, 2001 |
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