Women Textile Designers (V&A Museum)

by Victoria Bradley (Editor), Elizabeth Currie (Editor)

Women Textile Designers features printed, woven, and embroidered fabrics created for public spaces, furnishings, fashion, and theater by some of the world's most accomplished designers. Illustrated with a wealth of weaves, prints, textures, and patterns, it includes works by Arts and Crafts pioneer May Morris, Bauhaus designers Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers, mid-century designers Lucienne Day and Althea McNish, contemporary pioneers, such as Birgitta Hahn and Reiko Sudo, and many more.

Chapters charting the transformation of the textile industry over the twentieth century―including women's increased access to design education and their roles as entrepreneurs and leaders―are accompanied by in-depth illustrated profiles of key designers. The book examines the creation of new products and technologies, alongside changing consumer patterns and the shifting functions of modern textiles in domestic interiors, public spaces, and transportation.

Hardcover, 272 pages