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Marion Dorn (1899-1964) was born and educated in San Francisco and came to Britain in the early 1920s. By the mid-1930s she was acclaimed as a leading free-lance textile designer and in 1934 founded her own firm, Marion Dorn Ltd.. In 1940 she returned to the USA. The Old-Bleach Linen Company Ltd of Randalstown, Northern Ireland,was established in 1870 by C J Webb and produced embroidery, dress and furnishing linens, damask table linens and embroidered goods. It published the journal 'Embroideress' in conjunction with James Pearsall & Co. Ltd., manufacturers of embroidery yarns and knitting wools. This fabric was used in the lounge of the ocean liner 'Orcades'.

Furnishing fabric · Northern Ireland · 1938. Screen-printed linen and rayon. By Marion Dorn. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.