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Anna Maria Garthwaite
1690-1763
She was the daughter of a wealthy rector in Lincolnshire (UK). She was a leading designer of the English silk industry. She created over 1000 designs for the silk industy. Many of her designs in water color have survived and are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.


Brocaded Silk, 1748 Spitafileds Weaver: Thomas Brant The Metropomitan Museum of Art	Compared to the French designs of the same period the English style is closer to nature. Flowers are smaller and less stylized than in France.	Typical design of English dress silk. A similar pattern can be seen at the Art Institute of Chicago The Albany Institute of Art shows a dress in silk brocaded taffeta fabric witha very similar design b

A source of inspiration for Anna Maria Garthwaite could have been the nursery gardens of experimental horticulturists near Spitalfields.	1740 Original design at V&A museum

Woven Silk 1757 The largest collection of designs by Anna Maria Garthwaite is at V&A Museum. Most of those drawing were found at Huddersfied in 1971 and acquired by the V&A Museum, London

Further Readings:

Jenkins, David.: The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003
Ginsburg, Garthwaite, Anna Maria (1688–1763?)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004

Links:
Anna Maria Garthwaite WIKIPEDIA
Spitalfields Pattern Books, V&A images

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