Duncan Grant-Rug Design 1913

This bag is made out of an old vest of mine,
I snipped off 42 centimetres for the width to be 20 centimetres as 1 centimetres is used for the seam allowance and I snipped off 26 centimetres for the height to be 12 centimetres, as again the 1 centimetres goes to the seam allowance.

Artist Influence: Duncan Grant (1913)

Title: Rug Design
Materials and Techniques: Hand-knotted woollen pile 

Duncan James Corrowr Grant was born on 21 January 1885 and died on 8 May 1978. He was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery and theatre sets and costumes. He attended school in England from 1894, where he was educated at Hillbrow School,
a preparatory school in Rugby, and St Paul's School in London.
Reference: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Grant)

In 1913 Roger Fry founded the Omega Workshops, a group of artists designing furniture, pottery, carpets, textiles and stained glass. Duncan Grant designed pottery and textiles, like his carpet, for the Workshops. The outbreak of war… 

( http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89728/carpet-grant-duncan/ )

I have analysed the tiny repetitive lines on this Rug Design, which I consider very powerful visually because of the quantity of it on overall. The long stretched rectangles covers up half of the overall design which balances the equation of half long stretched rectangles and half repetitive small dashes.
There are seven overall long rectangles three in the middle with same colours and two on each sides of the middle three. Again this balances the look of the design.
All the slanted dashes are slanted to the same direction which is quite significant, as it can indicate the signal to walk on the right side of the rug when people walk pass each other coming from both directions.

I have picked up the technique and applied it onto my own work.

As I had taken photographs of wallets with bank notes and coins previously, to get some observational studies of bags of interest. The money currency caught my attention, which I have obtained and applied it onto my bag. 

I have employed the stretched rectangle also, to give my bag the balanced equation.

Artist/ Designer: Loretta

Title: Euro and Global Gladstone Bags in Green Geo

Artist/Designer: Duncan Grant
Title: Rug design

http://www.carpetbags.co.uk/bags/euroglad_greengeo.php#

Here is an image of a carpet design bag, which I found it on an online shopping website called “Carpet Bags”. I found this quite similar to the Rug design work produced by my artist Duncan Grant. A technique I used to compare the two designs at the very beginning is by squinting my eyes to match the two designs by two different designers. The colours in both textile designs are very similar despite Grant’s Rug Design has more portions of red (colour).

Loretta and the influence on carpet bags:

“In 1974 I was asked if I had any ideas for items for sale for our local charity stall that friends were setting up together at a local country horse fair. It didn’t take much thinking about........”

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