Sample of “Salangore” fabric designed by Thomas Wardle

Great Britain

Date: c.1878

Origin: Great Britain

Dimensions: H 17.5cm x W 77cm

Venue: Gawthorpe Textiles Collection

Lightweight cotton furnishing fabric called ‘Salangore’, designed by Thomas Wardle for Liberty. The Victoria & Albert Museum has a sample of this design in blue, printed onto tussah silk hand-woven in India, which was exhibited in the British India Pavilion of the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. One of six Indian-inspired patterns at the exhibition, it showed the continuing influence of Indian design in Britain throughout the 19th century, as well as the place of stores like Liberty in popularising these designs. 

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