Dress Fabric
1933 (made)
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This cotton dress fabric is printed with a repeat of flowers and stems in burnt orange, golden yellow and light grey, on a black background. Floral printed fabrics held a prominent place in every smart woman's wardrobe in the 1930s. Motifs floating on a plain ground worked admirably; navy, black and brown background colours were perennially in vogue. The use of floral decoration on cloth was hardly new but the flowers of the 1930s blossomed with fresh life and vigour. Detailed, naturalistic representations in the traditional manner were replaced with a freedom of line and form closely allied to contemporary movements in the fine and graphic arts.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Screen-printed cotton |
| Brief description | Cotton printed dress fabric; British, 1920s. |
| Physical description | Cotton printed with a repeat of flowers and stems in burnt orange, golden yellow and light grey, on a black background. |
| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by the British Institute of Industrial Art |
| Summary | This cotton dress fabric is printed with a repeat of flowers and stems in burnt orange, golden yellow and light grey, on a black background. Floral printed fabrics held a prominent place in every smart woman's wardrobe in the 1930s. Motifs floating on a plain ground worked admirably; navy, black and brown background colours were perennially in vogue. The use of floral decoration on cloth was hardly new but the flowers of the 1930s blossomed with fresh life and vigour. Detailed, naturalistic representations in the traditional manner were replaced with a freedom of line and form closely allied to contemporary movements in the fine and graphic arts. |
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| Accession number | T.426-1934 |
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| Record created | January 14, 2004 |
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