- Title:
- Brunel
- Object name(s):
- Furnishing fabric
- Brief description:
- Woven wool and cotton, machine sewn three edges, one selvedge. Unpatterned with speckled effect created with red weft, black warp.Woven EW label : " name Brunel/ no. 0462/12/ width 50"/ yards 3/4 x 1/2w".
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Textiles
- Associated concept:
- Scotland
- Credit line:
- Given by Sara Lee Courtaulds
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018LD9307/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 65.5
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 61
- Object history note:
- From Courtaulds Design Library, group F5 The Courtaulds Design Library principally contained records from Courtaulds’ factories at Halstead and Bocking, Essex, and Halifax, and the large collection that came into Courtaulds’ possession through its acquisition of Morton Sundour and Edinburgh Weavers in 1963. The library was used by designers within Courtaulds and was also available for the use of Courtaulds’ customers. Following the acquisition of Courtaulds by the international corporation Sara Lee and the subsequent change in the business it was decided that the V&A would be the most appropriate location for the collection to enable it to be appreciated and used more fully. The Library was donated to the V&A by Sara Lee Courtaulds in 2001.
- Object name:
- Furnishing fabric
- Object number:
- T.354-2009
- Object production date:
- 1958
- Date - association:
- manufactured
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1958-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1958-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Edinburgh Weavers
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturers
- Object production place:
- Carlisle
- Place association:
- manufactured
- Physical description:
- Woven wool and cotton, machine sewn three edges, one selvedge. Unpatterned with speckled effect created with red weft, black warp.Woven EW label : " name Brunel/ no. 0462/12/ width 50"/ yards 3/4 x 1/2w".
- Reproduction number:
- 2018LD9307
- Responsible department/section:
- T&F
- Technique:
- weaving
- Technique:
- Woven wool and cotton
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Edinburgh Weavers was founded in 1928 by the textile manufacturer James Morton (1867-1943) as an experimental design and marketing unit of Morton Sundour Fabrics. Originally based in Edinburgh, the firm merged with Morton Sundour Fabrics' weaving factory in Carlisle in 1931. They achieved success in the UK and US under the enlightened directorship of Alastair Morton (1910-63), who commissioned freelance designers and artists to produce work for interpretation as printed and woven fabrics. Following Alastair Morton's death, Edinburgh Weavers was taken over by Courtaulds in 1963.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- The Mortons : Three Generations of Textile Creation (exhibition catalogue, V&A, 1973), cat. no. 247
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1984632a-7c7a-316f-884c-d0c3036a8ca6
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/1984632a-7c7a-316f-884c-d0c3036a8ca6, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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