Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Home Beautiful: Pochoir Furnishing Fabric, 1925



Click on image to see a pink spaniel.
Furnishing Fabric, c. 1925
The Victoria & Albert Museum



Made in Manchester, England, around 1925 by Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee & Co, this furnishing fabric was designed by George Sheringham. The repeat of the material depicts a couple attired in Eighteenth Century court costume. Their companion is a pink spaniel. 


Such fairytale-inspired scenes were popular in the 1920s. This one borrows its theme from a series of Italian fashion plates which were made by with pochoir stencils.



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