Australian Fabric Designer – John Rodriquez
2021-08-28
John Rodriquez became well known for his textile designs in the early 1950’s. He introduced a unique Australian Style. Read More →
Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) German Textile Designer, artist and teacher
2021-07-26
Anni Albers was a German Textile Designer, artist and teacher. She was born in Berlin and was the Wife of Josef Albers.Read More →
Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) influential textile designer
2021-07-23
Lucienne Day was one of the most influential post-war British textile designers. She developed a unique style of pattern making. READ MORERead More →
Dagobert Peche (1887 – 1923) Austrian artist and designer
2021-07-13
He devised wholly new, amusing forms, frequently in simple materials like tole and cardboard; the conditions caused by World War I dictated the use of low-cost raw materials. Read More →
Elizabeth Peacock (1880 – 1969) British textile designer and teacher.
2021-07-13
She was best known for the eight banners commissioned by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst for the Great Hall in Dartington between 1934 and 1938. She was a spinner, dyer, and weaver and an outstanding teacher from 1940 until 1957.Read More →
Allan Walton (1891 – 1948) British painter, decorator, architect and textile designer
2021-06-24
He commissioned some of the most innovative screen prints of the 1930s, designed by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, as a principle of Allan Walton Fabrics. Read More →
Minnie Macleish (1876 – 1957 ) British textile designer
2021-06-22
She collaborated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Constance Irving at London’s Foxton textiles and Amsterdam’s Metz store. Macleish was a prolific designer during the 1920s and 1930s, creating patterns for Morton Sundour fabrics.Read More →
André Groult (1884 – 1967) French interior designer and furniture designer
2021-06-11
André Groult (1884 – 1967) was a French interior designer and furniture designer who contributed to the Art Deco movement. Curving and organic shapes, as well as vibrant materials, characterised his work. As a result, his art has been described as a blend of tradition and modernism.Read More →
Group of Ten (est. 1970) design collective promoting creative individuality
2021-06-09
Because its members had previous careers in the textile industry, they wanted to be free to promote their creative ideas. Read More →
Marie Teinitzer (1879 – 1960) Czech textile artist and producer
2021-06-05
Marie Teinitzerová was born in a little town near Pelhimov called kov. However, she and her parents soon relocated to Jindichv Hradec. In Vienna and Brno, she studied painting. She attended the School of Applied Arts in Prague from 1905 to 1906, then a weaving school in Berlin in 1906. Her research tour took her to Denmark, Sweden, and France, where she attended tapestry workshops in Paris. She returned to Prague in 1908.Read More →
Hiroshi Awatsuji (1929 – 1995) Japanese Textile Designer
2021-06-01
Hiroshi Awatsuji (1929- 1995) was a Japanese textile and graphic designer: born in Kyoto. He was considered the first Japanese textile designer to be recognised for contemporary design rather than for traditional art and craft. The main characteristic of his work was over sized motifs.Read More →
Zandra Rhodes (1940 – ) British fashion and textile designer
2021-06-01
Zandra Rhodes studied lithography and printing at Medway College before going on to the Royal College of Art to study textiles, graduating in 1964 during the height of the pop movement. She made a paper wedding dress that cost less than two shillings, motivated by this trend and the work of painter Roy Lichtenstein in particular (about 7 new pence). In 1967, paper clothing was all the rage: it was the ultimate representation of disposable apparel.Read More →
Alexander Girard (1907 – 1993) American architect, interior designer, industrial designer and textile designer
2021-05-26
Alexander Girard (1907 – 1993) was a man of many design talents. He trained asRead More →
Margaret Leischner (1908 – 1970) German textile designer
2021-05-26
She began teaching weaving at the Bauhaus in 1931. She worked at the Dresdener Deutsche Werkstatten in 1931, designing woven textiles, and was the head of the weaving department at the Berlin Modeschule from 1932 to 1936. She worked as the head designer for Gateshead, a British fabric manufacturer.Read More →
Judith Leiber (1921 – 2018) Hungarian American designer of handbags
2021-05-26
Judith Leiber (1921 – 2018) was a prolific designer whose fanciful minaudières had accessorised royalties, first ladies, and film stars, and entered the collections of art the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While her couture handbags—carried by celebrities such as Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert, Björk, and Barbara Walters—are widely regarded as works of art, Leiber preferred the word “artisan” to “artist.”Read More →
Nanna Ditzel (1923 – 2005) Danish architect and furniture designer
2021-05-24
Nanna Ditzel, a leading Danish 20th-century designer, had also worked in furniture, textiles and jewellery design for many decades and has been one of the few women designers in the country to achieve celebrity status.Read More →
Laura Ashley (1926 – 1988) British fabric and fashion designer
2021-05-18
Laura Ashley was one of the first British designers to experiment with the concept of lifestyle marketing. Her romantic vision of nineteenth-century rural life, adapted to modern domestic realities, inspired a generation of middle-class Britons who returned to country life in the 1960s and 1970s.Read More →
Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx (1902 – 1903) British textile and graphic designer
2021-05-18
Designs for London Underground seats. She studied painting and wood engraving at the Royal College of Art in London, as well as at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.Read More →
Masakazu Kobayashi ( b.1944 ) Japanese textile designer
2021-05-14
Masakazu Kobayashi is a Japanese textile designer. He studied at the University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan. Between 1966 and 1975, he worked as a textile designer for Kawashima. He manifested traditional textile techniques and aesthetics in his work. He developed both production fabrics and large-scale fibre works.Read More →
Robert Yorke Goodden (1909-2002) British architect and designer
2021-05-09
He was in private practice since 1932. Wallpapers, domestic machine-pressed glassware for Chance Bros., 1953 coronation hangings for Westminster Abbey, gold and silverwares, ceremonial metalwork, glassware for King’s College, Cambridge, 1961 metal-foil murals for the oceanliner Canberra, engraved and sandblasted glass murals for Pilkington. Read More →