Red Rose Guild
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The Red Rose Guild was a guild based in Manchester, with the aim to promote British arts and crafts. It was “regarded as the most influential national outlet for makers” in Britain during the first ha
Houldsworth Hall, Hulme Hall
Ethel Mairet
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Ethel Mary Partridge, Ethel Mary Mairet RDI, or Ethel Mary Coomaraswamy was a British hand loom weaver, significant in the development of the craft during the first half of the twentieth century.
Red Rose Guild
…is now Hulme Hall, Manchester until World War II. Prominent members of the Guild included potter Bernard Leach, silversmith Joyce Himsworth and weaver Ethel Mairet. After the war, the Guild moved its headquarters to Whitworth Hall. In 1950 the Guild joined the Crafts Centre of Great Britain. In 1920 an exhibition…
Ethel Mairet Hand Weaver
The Norman Chapel House main entrance in Broad Campden in 1895. This (partly 12th century) house was renovated by C. R. Ashbee for Ananda Coomaraswamy from 1905 to 1907
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Floral Design with Peonies Lilies and Roses for Spitalfields Silk by Anna Maria Garthwaite 1744