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 →
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 →
Annie Coop – Australian Textile Studio
2021-06-19
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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Sven Markelius (1889 – 1972) – Swedish Architect, Town Planner and Textile Designer
2021-05-10
Sven Markeilus (1889- 1972) was a Swedish Architect, Town Planner and textile designer born in Stockholm.
He taught in Stockholm and at Yale University. In the 1950s, Markelius designed simple wooden furniture and printed fabrics with Astrid Sampe, produced by Nordiska in Stockholm.Read More →
Jacqueline Groag (1903 – 1986) Czech textile designer
2021-05-06
Jacqueline Groag (1903 – 1986) was a Czech textile designer and ceramicist. Born in Prague she studied in Vienna at the Kunstgewerbeschule during the 1920s. In 1937 she moved to Paris where she designed dress prints for Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiparelli and others.Read More →
Alastair J.F. Morton (1910 – 1963) British textile manufacturer and painter
2021-05-03
Morton joined his family’s Morton Sundour Fabrics in 1931 and oversaw the company’s first screen-printed fabrics. He was the artistic director and principal designer of Edinburgh Weavers in Carlisle, which was established in 1928 as Morton Sundour’s creative design unit from 1932 to 1935. From the 1930s, he was a supporter of the Modern movement, commissioning works from well-known painters and artists.Read More →
Junichi Arai (1932 – 2017) Japanese textile designer and producer
2021-04-19
Junichi Arai (1932 – 2017) was a Japanese textile designer and producer born in Kiryu, Gunma. As the sixth generation of a mill-owning family, Arai grew up with fabrics being woven for obis and kimonos. He held traditional weaving methods in high regard and the skills that only the human hand can have in the art of fabric making. Read More →
Hannah Ryggen (1894 – 1970) Swedish textile designer
2021-04-15
Hannah Ryggen (1894 – 1970) was a textile designer and teacher from Sweden. She was born in Malmö and worked professionally in Norway.Read More →
Christine Van der Hurd – British textile designer
2021-04-06
Christine Van der Hurd is a British textile designer and is professionally active in New York and London. She studied at the Winchester School of Art, Hampshire, until 1973Read More →
Estrid Ericson (1894 – 1981) Swedish designer and entrepreneur
2021-03-25
Estrid Ericson, a pewter designer and design entrepreneur, was the founder of Svenskt Tenn, a highly influential Stockholm store and manufacturer closely associated with the Swedish Modern aesthetic and export success.Read More →
Barbro Nilsson (1899 – 1982) Swedish Textile Designer
2021-03-09
Barbro Nilsson (1899 – 1982) was a Swedish Textile Designer. She was born in Malmö. Between 1913-17, she studied weaving, at Brunsson Vavskola, under Johanna Brunsson and Alma Jakobsson. Between 1917-20, at the Konstfackskolan and Tekniska Skolan, Stockholm. Read More →