Dress silk design of poppies and cornflowers.

Brief description

Dress silk design of poppies and cornflowers, by Madeleine Lawrence, 1929.

Date

1929

Dimensions

height: 154mm
width: 181mm

Organisation

Silver Studio

More details

design for a dress print. Poppies and cornflowers were favourites for dress cottons because of the richness of their colouring. Field poppies were symbolic of the wild fragility of nature; both flowers could be found in the summer months in English fields and hedgerows.

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