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Day, Lucienne (Born Désirée Lucienne Conradi to an English mother and Belgian father)
Heal Fabrics (The company was founded in 1941 as Heal's Wholesale and Export, becoming Heal Fabrics in 1959, as the emphasis focussed increasingly on textile production. Heals purchased designs and then outsourced their production, retailing them through its department store, Heal & Son and other outlets.)
Curtain, white cotton with curtain tape attached to top edge; screen printed with the 'Ticker Tape' design by Lucienne Day, white ground with uneven areas of yellow mottling, with yellow stripes of varying width along the vertical length, these either undecorated or patterned with small black blocks, black dots, black 'hourglasses' or black vertical bars, an additional stripe is formed by black blocks on the white ground, each containing a white 'hourglass' motif, inscribed along the selvedge.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 51729
Creation/Production
Day, Lucienne
Heal Fabrics
Date: 1953 –
Acquisition
Transfer, 12/12/2013
Measurements
Length
(cm): 233
Width
(cm): 100
Techniques
woven
forming
Applied Art
screen-printed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
cotton
Location
In store
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