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It was manufactured for and retailed by the soft furnishings and furniture shop C. Hindley & Sons, who took over the established firm of Miles & Edwards in 1844. The shop was at 134 Oxford Street, London.\r\n\nMany similar fabrics (‘known as chintz’) were exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 by other London firms. Some were chosen by Henry Cole for his exhibition in 1852 of ‘False Principles in Design’ at the Museum of Ornamental Art, Marlborough House, London, in 1852. Cole and his colleague Richard Redgrave criticised floral chintzes that were not symmetrical, and tried to capture realistic, three-dimensional natural forms with their patterns. They argued that designs directly imitating flowers (rather than use of stylised repeating shapes) were unsuitable for textiles intended for draped and folded curtains.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Cotton furnishing fabric printed with a polychrome floral pattern","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"C. 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A. Hindley as a group presumably including all pattern books and textiles now with 'T' and 'Circ' numbers, for £25, see RP 1925/7160. C. A. Hindley (1863-1947) was the grandson of the founder of C. Hindley &amp; Sons.\r\n\r\nMiles & Edwards were furniture printers from 1821. William Miles, linen-draper, was established from at least 1805 in Holborn, moving to Oxford Street in 1811. He had some cottons printed at Bannister Hall in 1806. Miles and Edwards, appearing first in the directory of 1822, probaby set  up their other Oxford Street address [134] in April 1821, the date of the first sample in their order books T.209-T.211-1925. The firm's stock was taken over in [1844] by Charles Hindley who continued to produce their more popular patterns for several decades.\n\nIn 1891 another firm, Charles Wilkinson &amp; Sons, of 8 Bond Street, joined with Hindley to create Hindley &amp; Wilkinson, with showrooms at Bond Street and (from 1909 only) Welbeck Street. \n\nThe firm was bought in 1912 by Debenham, Storr &amp; Sons, and merged with Marshall &amp; Snelgrove in about 1918. \n\n(Based on text from Wendy Hefford, <i>The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection: Design for Printed Textiles in England from 1750 to 1850</i>, London, 1992, p.158, with recent updates, for sources see the Furniture History Society British and Irish Makers database online)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Furnishing fabric, printed cotton, ca. 1845-1855, English, C Hindley & Sons","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["CIRC.1041-1925"],"accessionNumberNum":"1041","accessionNumberPrefix":"CIRC","accessionYear":1925,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2026PR1702"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}