Comments on: A Different Canvas: The British Abstractionists http://venetianred.net/2009/11/13/a-different-canvas-the-british-abstractionists/ Working artists discuss art, textiles, design, and culture Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Liz Hager http://venetianred.net/2009/11/13/a-different-canvas-the-british-abstractionists/#comment-3018 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:17:29 +0000 http://venetianred.net/?p=5875#comment-3018 Sara
Thank you for finding us and for adding this wonderful bit of information to the post.

How lucky you are to have worked Edinburgh Weavers! I can only imagine what it must have been like to touch, in a sense, the hands of textile design greatness. I’ve always been in awe of the British textile tradition, as much for its pioneering aesthetic (over the last 2 centuries) as for the respect the industry has always garnered in artistic circles. In a world that sharply divides the “high” and “low” arts, it’s refreshing to know that somewhere in the world, artists don’t make those kind of distinctions. . .

Is there anywhere one can see the Morton archive?

]]> By: Sara Kirby http://venetianred.net/2009/11/13/a-different-canvas-the-british-abstractionists/#comment-3017 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:35:09 +0000 http://venetianred.net/?p=5875#comment-3017 I found this website while researching Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson for a proposed film, about their life. It is stunning!
I worked at Sundour Fabrics and Edinburgh Weavers as a textile designer and colourist in the Robin Hood mills, Bolton, after graduating in printed textiles from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1997. My main role was to select designs from the Morton archive and produce colourings for contemporary use. I worked with the original designs including ‘Unicorn’
by Nancy Nicholson. I have always appreciated the work of Alistair Morton and his contribution to textile design.

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