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The system was devised to ensure that the civilian population continued to have some access to consumer goods.  Responsibility for the creative development of these products was placed in the hands of a number of chief practitioners of the day, including Enid Marx who represented the field of textile design.  Her brief was to design uncomplicated patterns that could be produced within the technical and cost restrictions imposed by wartime austerity.  The textiles that she developed were generally of a geometric or abstract nature with small scale repeating patterns, such as Spot and Stripe. Marx was critical of the eventual choice of rust, green, blue and natural for the designs, condemning rust as 'most deplorable and responsible for much of today's low standards of public taste'.","physicalDescription":"Woven cotton and condensed yarn furnishing fabric.  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Samples such as Spot and Stripe (Circ.221F-1949), Honeycomb (Circ.215-1949), Ring (Circ.217-1949) and Chevron (Circ.203A-1949) were initially trialled by their manufacturer Morton Sundour Fabrics and, on approval from the Board of Trade Design Panel, were released to the trade generally.  Some designs were executed in a dark brown which was subsequently eradicated from the final restricted and undeniably dull palette of rust, green, blue and natural.","briefDescription":"Furnishing fabric, woven cotton with spot and stripe design, Marx, Enid for Utility Design Panel, Britain, 1945","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ikoku, Ngozi.  The Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection: British Textile Design from 1940 to the Present.  V&A Publications, London, 1999, p. 9, plates 6, 7, 8 & 9"}],"production":"Attribution note: Designed for the Board of Trade Utility Design Panel, trialled in 12 colourways\nReason For Production: Retail","productionType":{"text":"Mass produced","id":"THES48863"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"stripes","id":"AAT10230"},{"text":"geometric patterns","id":"AAT165213"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["CIRC.221F-1949"],"accessionNumberNum":"221","accessionNumberPrefix":"CIRC","accessionYear":1949,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-20","recordCreationDate":"2005-01-05","availableToBook":true}}