Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Photographs/slides

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

*Not available / given

Photographs/Slides

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

Taylor, Fraser

Fabric lengths

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

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Ephemera

Part of Papers of Conrad McKenna, student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

Greetings cards and printed ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna during his time as a student and teacher at The Glasgow School of Art. Including Christmas cards and printed ephemera such as: tickets, menus, exhibition signage, exhibition catalogue and materials produced by The Glasgow Art Club.

McKenna, Conrad

Printed textiles

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

A selection of printed textiles created during Fraser Taylor's time as a student at the RCA.

Taylor, Fraser

Posters

DC 111/4
Series
Late 20th century

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Posters from exhibitions of work of James Cosgrove, and his students. Also posters advertising bands and lectures.

Cosgrove, James

Fabric samples

DC 068/8
Series
c1953-1990

Part of Papers and textiles of Sylvia Chalmers

Contains 20 fabric samples in 13 different geometric and floral designs. Named designs include: 'Rum', 'Kildare', 'Plane leaf', 'Cobra', 'Palamos'. Some designs were done for Elisabeth Eaton Ltd.

Chalmers, Sylvia

Material featuring designs by Haswell Miller

DC 098/1/1
Series
[1908-1928]

Part of Papers of Archibald Haswell Miller

A variety of designs completed by Archibald Haswell Miller, including book covers, commercial artworks, and religious designs. Some of these items are dated to his time as a lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art.

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Correspondence

DC 098/1/2
Series
1906-1926

Part of Papers of Archibald Haswell Miller

A variety of letter received by Archibald Haswell Miller. One of this letters dates to his time as a student at the Glasgow School of Art, whereas the others date to his time as a lecturer at the same institution.

Catterns, Edward Railton

Diploma course work

DC 091/2
Series
c1960-1961

Part of Records relating to Dugald Cameron

Folder containing work produced by Dugald Cameron during his time on the Industrial Design diploma course at GSA.

Cameron, Dugald

Designs on paper

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

7 designs for textile patterns by Fraser Taylor for The Cloth. In acrylic, watercolour, pen and crayon on paper, some with elements of collage. Undated.

*Not available / given

Printed textiles

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

5 printed textiles, including printed lengths, a square scarf and a sample fashion textile.

Taylor, Fraser

Teaching aids

GSAA/EPH/11
Series
15th century to 20th century

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Teaching aids include collections of prints, photographs, and calligraphy examples.

*Not available / given

Garments

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

Taylor, Fraser

Illustrations and designs

DC 110/1/3
Series
c1914-1918

Part of Mary Ramsay artworks

A variety of illustrations and designs completed by Mary Ramsay. Most of these items are undated, though one bears a label referring to Ramsay's studies during the 1915-1916 session at The Glasgow School of Art. These items include pencil and paint on paper.

Ramsay, Mary

Artworks

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

Artworks, primarily on paper.

Includes GSA student work such as sketchbooks and loose sketches, collages and textile samples.

Fraser Taylor student sketches and collages for various student projects experimenting with media. Collages of preparatory designs for printed textiles of various media including layers of tissue papers, glassine paper, foam pieces, tracing paper with crayon, inks, dyes and mono print. Textile samples of figure studies with gouache paint, ink and collage areas in various medium. Designs for printed textiles in acrylic and pen on paper with areas of collage. Sketches of landscape and figure studies, pencil, charcoal, chalk, crayon, glue, acrylic and watercolour on paper. With hand written titles, dates and notes. 44 sheets various dimensions varying from 296 x 210 mm to 740 x 555 mm. Some mounted on card. The items are very fragile with
some collage elements, flaking of the friable media such as gouache and acrylic paints.

Some of this material was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Paper conservation took place in 2018. Textile conservation was completed in 2019.

Taylor, Fraser

Designs and artworks