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Founded in 1913 by Roger Fry, Omega Workshops was a group of artists (including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant) who designed furniture, pottery, carpets, textiles, stained glass and whole schemes of interior decoration.  The Omega textile designs were ahead of their time and set a fashion for abstract and geometric patterns. This example 'Cracow', was advertised for sale as a durable tapestry for upholstery, but the V & A has a waistcoat in the collection made of the same fabric.","physicalDescription":"Doublecloth wool and linen furnishing fabric with a design of stylised flower, stem and leaf. Weft of blue, red, brown wool and white cotton weft; warp of dark brown and cream cotton.\r\nUnlike the free-hand, painterly designs for linens produced by the Omega Workshop, Cracow, in its continuous repeat, conforms more to traditional patterns for textiles. This reflects its production on a jacquard loom, where the pattern is produced through the weave. The design for the printed linens was applied by print onto the fabric allowing for more flowing compositions. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Fry, Roger Eliot","id":"A1427"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Omega Workshops","id":"A7158"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Omega Workshops","id":"A7158"},"association":{"text":"vendor","id":"AAT150791"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"A. H. Lee & Sons","id":"A11771"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Linen","id":"x29412"},{"text":"wool yarn","id":"x30441"}],"techniques":[{"text":"weaving","id":"AAT53642"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Jacquard-woven wool and linen\r\nThe natural coloured weft thread becomes red in the areas of ground and taupe to define the flowers' sepals. These colours are evidently applied to the thread before weaving as the warp threads carry no additional colour in these areas. Waistcoat, Circ.1-1963, of the same fabric is more strongly coloured. 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The point paper design for this 'Cracow' (design no. 478), 1914 is in the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead. It is pencil and ink on paper.","briefDescription":"Furnishing fabric, 'Cracow', wool and linen, Roger Fry for Omega Workshops, manufactured by A.H. Lee & Sons, Birkenhead, 1913","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Donald King, ed., <i>British Textile Design in the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>, Tokyo: Gakken, 1980, Vol. III, pl. 181."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection. British Textiles from 1900 to 1937</i>. London: V&A Publications, 1992, p. 37, ill. 20."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>Beyond Bloomsbury. Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19</i>, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2009, p. 130, cat. 40."}],"production":"Attribution note: Woven in width of 54\".  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