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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> They were commercially successful attracting commissions from wealthy private individuals including Coco Chanel the Duke of Westminster the architect Detmar Blow as well as ublic institutions like Girton College Cambridge and Winchester Cathedral. Their design skills emerged after early training as painters; Phyllis Barron at the Slade and Dorothy Larcher at the Hornsey School of Art. Initially Phyllis Barron was influenced by French peasant textiles and Dorothy Larcher finding herself stranded in India for the duration of the First World War discovered the art of Indian block printed textiles from villagers. They rediscovered the use of natural dye techniques with a specific interest in Indigo. Phyllis Barron’s influences brought bold abstract design and pattern to block printed textiles reflecting the Vorticists whereas Dorothy Larcher imbued a naturalistic style to their printed stuffs. They experimented with blocks cut from a variety of woods as well as lino and often used found objects such as kitchen utensils to make prints. Their recovery and development of natural dying techniques brought a range of intense and subtle colour to their work. Their hand made blocks ‘walked over a wide range of cloths including linen hand woven Indian cotton Chinese silk Rodier woollens chiffon crepe de chine selvet and organdie. Their prints were used in furnishing textiles as well as clothes and acces sories such as dresses scarves and stoles. (SP)