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Fabric

Williamson, Alexander Hardie
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Fabric
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Fabric sample, white cotton, rectangular in shape, pinked edges; screen-printed with a pattern called 'Swans and Castle' by Alexander Hardie Williamson, comprising a repeating motif of a castle behind a tree with a lake in the foreground on which two swans are swimming, there is one tree to the left of the lake and two to the right, printed in yellow, blue and indigo/dark purple.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 51732

Creation/Production

Williamson, Alexander Hardie
Trained and taught at RCA for 21 years, including a period as Head of Printed Textiles (1951-1955).
Unknown
Role: Production
Role: Designer
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Sussex
Period: 1948

Measurements

Length (cm): 35.5
Width (cm): 62.5

Material

Cotton

Location

In conservation
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  • Applied Art
  • Castle
  • Lake
  • Textile
  • Tree

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