Visit: Thursday 22 March 2012
Meeting Place: The Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1

11.15am
Visit to the exhibition “Designing Women: The Art of Textile Design in Postwar Britain” with Dennis Nothdruft, Curator of the Museum

Britain was at the forefront of international textile design in the 1950s and 1960s. At the heart of the movement were three women artists working in England, Lucienne Day, Jacqueline Groag and Marian Mahler, whose fresh, progressive designs transformed the drab era after the Second World War. This fascinating exhibition explores the role of these pioneering women in combining art and manufacturing to change the direction of the modern design industry and will provide a rare opportunity to see examples drawn from the unrivalled textile collection of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown.