- Hardcover: 156 pages
- Publisher: Templar Poetry (1 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906285195
- ISBN-13: 978-1906285197
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 962,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher met in the Brook Street Gallery shortly after the First World War, and went on to form a lifelong partnership during which they designed and made a range of superb handblock printed textiles using predominantly natural dyes. Their work was exhibited in respected Arts and Crafts Galleries including The Three Shields Gallery in Kensington Church Street, The Little Gallery run by Muriel Rose, The New Hand Workers Gallery, The Mayor Gallery and the Red Rose Gallery in Manchester.They were commercially successful attracting commissions from wealthy private individuals, as well as public institutions, including Coco Chanel, the Duke of Westminster, the architect Detmar Blow, Girton College, Cambridge and Winchester Cathedral. Their design skills emerged after early training as painters; Phyllis Barron at the Slade and Dorothy Larcher at the Hornsey School of art. Dorothy Larcher when she found herself stranded in India for the duration of the First World War discovered the art of Indian block printed textiles from villagers.Phyllis Barron's influences brought vigorous abstract design and pattern reflecting the Vorticists, whereas Dorothy Larcher brought a naturalistic design style to the textiles they made. They experimented with blocks cut from a variety of woods, as well as lino and found objects such as kitchen utensils. They recovered and developed natural dying techniques bringing a range of intense and subtle colour to their work. Their hand made blocks 'walked' over a wide range of cloths, including linen, hand-woven Indian cotton, Chinese silk, Rodier woollens, chiffon, crepe de chine, velvet and organdie. Their prints were used in furnishing textiles as well as clothes such as dresses, scarves and stoles. This book is a poetic representation of their creative partnership set alongside some of their textiles and the creative environments in which they worked.
About the Author
Jane Weir is Anglo-Italian, grew up in Salford, Greater Manchester where she was born (1963), and lived in Belfast for several years before moving back to England. She was joint winner of the first Jackson Dawson Award for poetry (2003) and her first collection, The Way I Dressed During the Revolution, was shortlisted in 2006 for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award by Judges Colm Toibin and Ciaran Carson. She was the winner of the 2008 Wigtown Poetry Competition. Before Playing Romeo, her second collection, was launched in 2007 along with her short Monograph, Between the Dome and the Stars, on the role that live performance played in the transmission and reception of the work of the poet Charlotte Mew. Jane Weir has also published a pamphlet, Alice, based partially on the life of the early twentieth century Derby political activist, Alice Wheeldon. Her monograph, Katherine Mansfield's Theatrical Handbag, is published in 2009.Jane Weir's poetry has been widely published in anthologies and magazines including Out of Fashion (Faber: 2005), Answering Back (Picador: 2007), The Forward Book of Poetry: 2006 and Ambit. Jane Weir lives and writes in the Derbyshire Peak District with her family.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In addition to bring a beautifully produced book, full Jane Weir's wonderful poetry, Walking the Block real strength is the journey the poems take the reader on through the lives and work of two highly original and influential textile designers - Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher.
The poems, which are inspired and illustrated by both examples of their work and events from both their personal and working lives, give the reader a fascinating insight into the women's work and their part in the resurgence of the British Arts and Crafts movement of the 1920s and 30s.
The poems, which are inspired and illustrated by both examples of their work and events from both their personal and working lives, give the reader a fascinating insight into the women's work and their part in the resurgence of the British Arts and Crafts movement of the 1920s and 30s.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This stunningly beautiful book has just been shortlisted in the Literature Category of the British Book Design and Production Awards - and deservedly so. It interrogates the scope of biography and poetry at the same time as recovering the creative working lives of the two modernist textile artists and handblock printers, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher. It is a remarkable literary achievement and I saw the writer talk and read from the book at St Ives recently. If you get the opportunity to see Jane Weir alongside her book don't miss it.
This is a refreshing and intelligent work and it is in stark contrast to much modern poetry which is bland and introspective.
This is a refreshing and intelligent work and it is in stark contrast to much modern poetry which is bland and introspective.
Format:Hardcover
This is a book to be treasured - exquisite artwork, fine poetry and social history all in one beautifully crafted book. I've just tried to buy a second copy for a present, but ironically -for a book that celebrates print - it seems to be out of print. I shall go to Templar website to make sure this is the case. Templar are a poetry publisher with an eye for lasting quality. (...)
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