Sample of “Salangore” fabric designed by Thomas Wardle

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 19^th century, as well as the place of stores like Liberty in popularising these designs. 

• Category: Domestic and Furnishings
• Category: Samples and Commercial Textiles
• Date: 1851-1900
• Material: Cotton
• Place: Great Britain