Study Room resource: Pattern
This study room resource examines designs for wallpaper and texiles by designers from 1868 to 1978. Also available are teachers notes and a reading list.
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Teachers' resource: Plant motifs
This resource is intended for secondary Art & Design and Design & Technology teachers. It contains information about plant motifs in textiles from Tudor England, Mughal Ind…
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The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
These four 15th-century tapestries with hunting scenes came to the V&A from the estate of The Dukes of Devonshire. They probably belonged to the celebrated Countess of Shre…
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Introduction to tapestries
Tapestry is an ancient technique of weaving. The pattern is woven in blocks of coloured weft thread which are then beaten down very tightly on the warp threads, producing a…
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Art Deco Textiles (Paperback)
Provides a stunning visual record of the fabrics which clothed the smart women and furnished the stylish interiors of Europe and America during the ag…
Buy nowEvent - William Morris Textiles and Wallpapers
Sat 15 June 2013 14:00
STUDY DAY: Artist, writer, socialist and conservationist, William Morris is best-known today as a designer of flat patterns.
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