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We recently visited Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, West London, to discover more about the exhibition Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker.  The child of Du...

The Fashion Museum is currently exhibiting Paint! Pattern! Print!  featuring the archive of Collier Campbell design studio.  Known for it's painter...

Artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell were founders of the Bloomsbury Group. The group was radical for its time, with artists, writers and thinkers...

We recently visited William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow to see the exhibition Women in Print: 150 years of Liberty Textiles (on until 21st June 2...

Marion Dorn (1896-1964) was an American designer best known for her wall hangings, carpets and rugs. In her early career she was based in New York ...

Enid Marx (1902-1998) was a pioneering designer who mostly famously created  seating moquette fabric for London Transport. In the 1920s she was alr...

Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a leading designer of abstract prints and patterns in the 1920s and 30s. She originally trained in Russia and German...

Marianne Straub (1909-1994), one of the leading commercial textile designers in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s. Born in Switzerland, she studi...

Today we are profiling Celia Birtwell, iconic British fashion and surface pattern designer. She was studying at Salford School of Art when she met ...