- NMC/1558F/v3
- Part
- Early 20th Century
Textiles
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Since its opening in 1845, The Glasgow School of Art has been connected to textile design and production.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries the School aimed to train local designers to produce patterns for the textile industry in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. In the 1890s, the School's embroidery department was established and soon became famous for the Glasgow Style pieces its staff and students produced (examples of such work are housed in the School's collections).
Jessie Newbery (1864-1948), the first head of this department, encouraged her students to study historical designs and textiles in order to understand different embroidery techniques and to use these items as a source of inspiration for the development of new original work. This teaching ethos continued to be used in the 20th century during which time the School also developed courses in textile printing, weave and knit.
A large number of the items in the School's collection are related to The Needlework Development Scheme (1934-1962). This scheme, sponsored by J & P Coats of Paisley, collected examples of embroidery from a variety of geographical and historical areas and made them available for use by educational institutions and embroidery groups. The scheme aimed to encouraging greater interest in needlework, and to improve the standard of embroidery techniques and designs. When the scheme ended, its collections were disseminated to a variety of organisations. The Glasgow School of Art received 125 items dating from 1652-1961 and originating from Britain, Europe and Asia.
Amongst other items of note in the School's collections are weave sample books from Donald Brothers Ltd, Dundee and examples of work by Kath Whyte (1909-1996), GSA's former Head of Embroidery, and her students.
Related publications:
Liz Arthur, Textile Treasures at the Glasgow School of Art;
Liz Arthur, The Unbroken Thread: A Century of Embroidery at Glasgow School of Art;
Thomasina Beck, Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880-1920;
Kathleen Whyte, Design in Embroidery;
R.Oddy. Embroideries from Needlework development scheme;
J. Taylor, The Glasgow School of Embroidery in 'The Studio';
Needlework development scheme, Contemporary Embroideries;
Margaret Swanson, Needlecraft in School;
Margaret Swanson; Needle craft for Older Girls;
Margaret Swanson, Needle craft and Psychology;
Margaret Swanson and Ann Macbeth, Educational Needle craft.
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- NMC/1558E/v3
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558D/v3
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558A/v4
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558D/v4
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558B
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- Early 20th Century
Green pelmet with an embroidered dark green stylised figure and leaf pattern.
*Not available / given
- NMC/1558C
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- Early 20th Century
Green pelmet with an embroidered dark green stylised figure and leaf pattern.
*Not available / given
- NMC/1558B/v1
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558C/v1
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558B/v2
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558C/v2
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558C/v3
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- Early 20th Century
- NMC/1558C/v4
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- Early 20th Century
- TSW/81
- Item
- c1970s-1980s
Woven wall hanging in plain weave with black yarn and loose supplementary warps and wefts in yellow, orange, red, green and black thinner yarn and ribbons of black plastic (possible bin bags). These supplementary warps and wefts form two vertical bands with a puckered effect. The warps are knotted and left long as fringes.
*Not available / given
Wall hanging depicting Hebridean village
- NMC/1571A
- Item
- c1950
Wall hanging, L-R design shows street of houses with mountains behind, church, trees, stone cross, cows and shore with moon.
Design by Scottish artist Eric Lounsbach, worked by primary and secondary school children.
Lounsbach, Eric
- TSW/81/v1
- Part
- c1970s-1980s
- TSW/81/v2
- Part
- c1970s-1980s
- NMC/1031
- Item
- c1920s
Design of frog and dragonfly.
Jackson, May
- NMC/1032
- Item
- c1920s
Design of bird and flowers.
Jackson, May
- DC 068/7/4/3
- Item
- c1953-1990
Printed tea towel of the Waltzing Waters with description and illustration of the show, in green, blue, yellow and pink on white background.
Chalmers, Sylvia
- DC 091/1/2/20
- Item
- 1958
3 multicoloured weave samples, mounted on one sheet of card.
Cameron, Dugald
- DC 091/1/2/19
- Item
- 1958
3 multicoloured samples of weaving, mounted on one sheet of card.
Cameron, Dugald
Weaving certificate of Robert C. Lockhart
- DC 037/1/1
- Item
- c1888
Part of Records of Donald Brothers Ltd, linen, canvas and furnishing fabric manufacturers, Dundee, Scotland
A weaving certificate awarded to Robert C. Lockhart by the Glasgow Technical College Weaving Branch for "excellence after two sessions".
Glasgow Technical College
- DC 040/2/2/3
- Item
- c1946-1948
Part of Papers of Margaret Elizabeth Galt, student of Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Samples of fabric designs woven in wool and coarse linen, presumably by Margaret Elizabeth Galt.
Galt, Margaret Elizabeth
- TSW/58
- Item
- c1970s-1980s
Cream-coloured woven sample with design of bands or stripes in beige, brown, light purple or light blue cotton thread or loosely spun cream-coloured wool, alternating between different textile weaves.
*Not available / given
- TSW/65
- Item
- c1970s-1980s
Two-faced fabric with fine grey and beige warp threads and a coral pink and loosely twisted cream thicker gauge weft. One face in a plaid design of twill and plain weave with bands of coral and cream on a grey background. On the other face, the cream weft threads have been deliberately cut and fringed to form bands of texture against the closely woven grey and coral background.
*Not available / given
- TSW/72
- Item
- c1970s-1980s
Closely woven, double-faced, padded fabric in a grid like repeat pattern in plain weave which has been edged with a pale green cotton fabric. It has a central slash opening, probably created to fit as a protective cover. Woven in cream, three shades of green and two of pink, the boxes of coloured stripes are raised over padding to give a quilted effect. On the reverse, the padded squares are self coloured, separated by striped rectangles.
*Not available / given
- TSW/74
- Item
- c1970s-1980s
Loosely woven two-faced fabric with organza ribbons in purple and green and loose weave cotton ribbons in pink and green. Reverse shows supporting weave of green and dark blue wool.
*Not available / given
- TSW/75
- Item
- c1970s-1980s
Two-faced plain weave sample with fringe. The face consists of fabric ribbons of a satin weave green fabric and a coarse open weave fabric in purple, blue and yellow. The reverse is woven with red yarn and the same coarse open weave fabric in purple, blue and yellow.
*Not available / given
- TSW/85
- Item
- 1979-1980
Woven in beige cotton thread, with supplementary wefts consisting of multi-coloured ribbons and carded wool (as padding).
Whittle, Rhona
- TSW/99
- Item
- 1980s
Four sample weaves on card. One with sections with thick white wool weft. One ruched fabric caught with chevron stitches on blue and beige fabric. One with a geometric designed weave in peach, dark pink, teal, blue and gold. The final piece with open weave sections and bands of close woven tape in blue, grey and dark pink, with flat orange button decoration.
Cunningham, Lin
- TSW/2
- Item
- 1977-1978
Double-faced evenly woven fabric in bands of geometric design in ochre, red, marron, blue and green. Distinctive arrowhead band repeats every few rows in different colourways.
Jardine, Norah
- TSW/3
- Item
- 1976-1977
Evenly woven cream woollen fabric, with different gauges of yarn and simple variation in weave type to create bands of pattern and texture.
Wajerski, Elizabeth
- TSW/4
- Item
- 1976-1977
Brightly coloured evenly woven fabric of blue and light purple warp and lime green, red, yellow and deep purple weft. Geometric design of stripes created by different colours and weave types.
Jardine, Norah
- TSW/17
- Item
- 1982-1983
Single-faced tightly woven cotton fabric, predominantly cream, with warp central band and selvedges in dark blue. Zig-zag, audio graph style pattern of coloured bands and barcode style blocks of coloured plain weaving contrast with the cream background.
Neil, Claire
- TSW/18
- Item
- 1985-1986
Sample woven in basketweave with fine white thread. Supplementary weft cords made of pink or blue yarn, white fabric ribbons and metallic-like threads form a pattern of stripes.
Crossan, Kathryn
- TSW/21
- Item
- 1979-1980
Open weave cream fabric in different gauges of yarn including chenille. Loose basket weave to form an open grid design in two sections, one section with heavier bands of weft threads.
MacPherson, Sandra
- TSW/23
- Item
- 1978-1979
Tightly woven pile weave sample in fine cream-coloured yarn. The warps have been dyed or printed before weaving with bands of diagonal lines in pink, blue, yellow, green, purple and red. The cut pile ends form a lattice pattern.
Carnie, Bruce
- TSW/29
- Item
- 1975-1976
Double-faced weaving sample in plain weave and bastketweave with geometric design in bands. Woven in shades of green, orange, red and blue wool yarn.
McBride, Marina
- TSW/35
- Item
- 1987-1988
Double-faced twill weave sample forming a pattern of vertical stripes. Woven with different types of yarn, threads and ribbons in orange, pink, yellow, light blue, brown, red, white, as well as supplementary wefts made of satin weave blue fabric ribbons.
Maclean, Derek B S
- TSW/44
- Item
- 1978-1979
Double-faced smooth woven fabric in shades of orange, green and claret. Shaded green warp threads, varying weave pattern to create banded geometric design.
Clyde, Norma
- TSW/5
- Item
- 1976-1977
Two faced woollen fabric in cream and light brown shades with bands of geometric pattern created by different weave types and subtle gradations in colour between bands.
Wajerski, Elizabeth
- TSW/9
- Item
- 1978-1979
Double-faced, tightly woven sample with grid-like design of coloured squares arranged in bands on a black background. Woven in plain weave with yarn in shades of pink, purple, orange, blue, brown and black. This sample was entered by Alison Blair as her entry for the RSA's Industrial Design Bursaries Competition in Furnishing Textiles.
Blair, Alison
- TSW/11
- Item
- 1987-1988
Single-faced neatly woven fabric in shades of light gold, sand, grey and teal. Occasional mercerised light gold warp yarns give the fabric a slight lustre and twisted two colour yarn also introduced to contribute to pattern.
Maclean, Derek B S
- TSW/15
- Item
- 1979-1980
Sample woven with cotton threads and long-haired mohair-like yarn in shades of yellow and green that form a design of bands. On the face side some of the long-haired yellow yarn has been pulled to create a pattern of serrated diagonals.
MacLaughland, Inez
- TSW/16
- Item
- 1977-1978
Double-faced fabric woven in four sections, with cream warp threads and stripes of beige, light brown, grey, blue, and pink yarns used in sections of the weft, creating a patchwork effect of striped and plain coloured blocks.
Horn, Jean
- TSW/19
- Item
- 1979-1980
Woollen woven sample in shades of cream, grey and black of possibly undyed yarn. Combinations of plain weave and twill weave form different bands of geometric design.
Whittle, Rhona
- TSW/20
- Item
- 1979-1980
Cream and blue woven fabric with small coloured squares of material caught in pockets beween the two faces. Pockets separated by a blue grid pattern of twill and plain weave.
Whittle, Rhona
- TSW/24
- Item
- 1978-1979
Sample woven in cream-coloured cotton thread with a pattern of puckered vertical bands.
Carnie, Bruce
- TSW/25
- Item
- 1975-1976
Woollen weaving sample woven using yarn of different thickness in shades of cream, brown and grey into a pattern of criss-crossed bands.
Paterson, Ann