Furnishing fabric

This furnishing fabric was designed by Minnie McLeish for William Foxton in 1924. The bluebell-shaped flowers and organic forms are similar in style, scale and colouring to some textiles produced by the Wiener Werkstätte (‘Vienna Workshops’). The firm of William Foxton Ltd., founded in 1903, produced some of the most innovative artist-designed textiles of the 1920s. It commissioned artists such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Claude Lovat Fraser, F. Gregory Brown and Minnie McLeish. In 1915 William Foxton helped to found the Design and Industries Association. The aim was to improve the standard of British industrial design by exhibiting new designs and communicating information about them to t

Furnishing fabric · London · 1924. Roller printed cotton. By McLeish, Minnie. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.