Repeat concave pattern

This is a wallpaper designed by Alan Shillingford for Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd in 1958. The sample was included in Allan Cockshut's machine-printed 'Star' pattern book which catered for the cheaper end of the market. The wallpaper features a small scale repeat pattern of ‘egg timer’ shaped motifs, in white on a yellow ground, with gold coloured lines. Listen to the audio created for the Sonic Wallpaper Project commissioned by MoDA and realised by Dr Felicity Ford: https://soundcloud.com/modamuseum/15-badda-4770 To create this piece, willing interviewees were asked to respond to wallpaper in the MoDA collection and asked to share their responses. Felicity then went on to create field-recordings based on what people said about the wallpaper design. She then layered these recordings with the interview material relating to this design, expanding the fantasies of home decorating using the descriptive powers of sound! People responded to this wallpaper (accession no. BADDA 4770) with fantasies involving spools, craft rooms, clocks, vintage furniture, looms, weaving and maths books. The recordings used to produce the resulting Sonic Wallpaper would not have been possible without the generosity and assistance of The Clockmaker's Museum, The Handweaver's Studio, and Barnet Museum.