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| Design Anna Maria Garthwaite 1726-1727 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Anna Maria Garthwaite was born in 1690 and went on to become one of the leading pattern drawers in the English silk industry. Amazingly, she did not receive any of the formal training which was typically considered necessary to take up such a profession. Anna Maria is credited as producing as many as 80 commissioned designs each year for master weavers.
Garthwaite lived and worked in Spitalfields, London from about 1730 until her death in 1763. Her work is characterized by her interest in natural forms.
Here, we see a design (in watercolor) for woven silk which she produced between 1726 and 1727.
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