by Applied Image | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog, News Archives
Dr Christine Boydell explores Marion Dorn’s design journey with Warner & Sons. Marion Victoria Dorn was born in San Francisco in 1896, and settled in London in 1923 with her partner, the graphic designer Edward McKnight Kauffer. At this time, she began designing...
by Applied Image | Jan 14, 2015 | Blog, News Archives
by Cathy MacTaggart In 2013 I spent some time volunteering at the Warner Textile Archive, and found I met lots of people with a wide variety of skills. At the time I was working on the penultimate module of my degree in Contemporary Applied Art, but was struggling to...
by Applied Image | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, News Archives
by Lesley Ellis Miller V&A Publishing, 2014 In 1972, Warner & Sons sold a selection of items from its business archive through Christie’s, and donated a special collection to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Selected by Nathalie Rothstein, among the...
by Applied Image | Sep 21, 2014 | Blog, News Archives
Summer Belles is an eye-catching hand-painted paper design, communicating the social freedom that many began to experience in the 1970s. Like many other designs in the Archive Collection, it highlights another side of Warner & Sons’ legacy – that of...
by Applied Image | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, News Archives
It’s another take on an avian species for this month’s [common] thread, but birds are an ever popular choice for a motif and Marion Dorn’s are just fabulous. The birds in Birds (screen-printed cotton, 1936) swoop this way and that for a gloriously...
by Applied Image | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, News Archives
In Old English, clout was a word used for patch; it later came to mean rag or fragment: ‘Ne’er cast a clout ’till May be out’ i.e. don’t discard you winter clothes until the end of May…or until the end of July, if the hailstones in...
