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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