Townsend textile design
Method
sketch
Year
1898
Dimensions
24.3
×22.8
cmThis design in pencil and watercolor for a woven double cloth is partly based on a Persian motif, hence the name `Omar' (probably after the 11th century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, whose work was popular in Britain in the later 19th century), but it also has some of the characteristics of British Art Nouveau. Yet Charles H. Townsend, as a member of the Arts & Crafts movement, would have rejected any connection between his work and continental Art Nouveau.
Method →
sketch
Period around
1898