Furnishing Fabric
1929 (manufactured), December 1926 (manufactured)
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| Place of origin |
Furnishing fabric of roller printed cotton.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Roller printed cotton |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric of cotton, designed by Mary Gibbs, Australia, 1929 |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of roller printed cotton. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Manchester Design Registry |
| Object history | The design of this furnishing fabric was taken from May Gibb's book "Gum Babies". Her illustrations of the Gum Nut world first appeared in 1916. The facility with which she adapted topical life to this world proved her undoing for her drawings eventually appeared in comic strip form in the daily newspapers. The reduction of her original idea to a mere formula and the resultant slickness of drawing robbed her work of its earlier interest. But at their best the stories of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Ragged Blossom and Little Obelia provide a uniquely Australian interpretation of the world of faery. It is unusual to find plant life, instead of animals, providing a basis for fantasy. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.200-1978 |
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| Record created | November 22, 2001 |
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