Walking the block
Weir, Jane, 1963-2008
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Total copies: 1
Phyllis Barron (1890 - 1964) and Dorothy Larcher (1884-1952)met in the Brook Street Gallery shortly after the first world war. This book is a poetic representation of their creative partnership which provides printed textiles for individuals like Coco Chanel and institutions such as Girton College and Winchester Cathedral.
Main title:
Walking the block / Jane Weir.
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Imprint:
Matlock : Templar Poetry, 2008.
Collation:
124 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Ill. on lining papers.
Contents:
CONTENTSMontreuil - Sur - Mer, Normandy Blocks -French Peasant Woman -Encountering Toile On The Way To The Slade -Dye Books -Indigo Cloth With White Stutters -Mollusc Shells -Smock Puzzle -White Spots And Splashes -Flock -Experiments With An Old French BlockUsing Nitric Acid To Discharge ColourOn Lengths Of Indigo Dyed Cotton -Natural Dye Colours -Preparation In The Kitchen, Attempt At An Indigo Vat -Plain Cottons, Linens And HessiansWedged Between Imported Goods -Most Of My Experiments, My Early Prints -When The Indigo Flowers -Haul -Air On Indigo -A Part Of Me Recognises This Too,Morris Thinking About Brown Instead Of Blue -Log -1914, Working With Alizarin In A Field Hospital Belgium -Painting Luminous Compass DialsFor The Royal Flying Corps -At Gospels Ethel Looks At Samples Sent -Clifford -Advice On Cutting A Block -A Tiger Against The Mouth Of Ajanta Caves, 1819 -Accompanying Lady Herringham At The Ajanta Caves -Lizard -When Dorothy Met Phyllis, Brook Street Gallery -Evening Dew And Morning Air -Carnac -Basket -Thrush Over Todd -Nasturtiums -Entranced -Portrait Of A Evacuee Dress -Printed Stuffs And Suggia's Dress -Girton Curtains -Cushions For Coco Chanel -Coco Asks, Could You Print Ankle Bracelets On Woollen Stockings? -The Duke Of Westminster's Boar -For Flying Cloud We Thought Large Or Old Captain -Marx -Painswick Dandelions -Mahogany Boat Seats With Infinite Possibilities -In The Alps, Barron Eats A Marmot -Dyes Racing -Pastry Cutter -There Was A Cloth, Sadly Now Lost, And We Called It Scaffold -Gathering Home Grown Flowers From Our Painswick Garden -
ISBN:
9781906285197 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.92
LC class:
PR6123.E38
Language:
English
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BRN:
271637