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Victoria Clayton, née Walker, (born 1947) is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire (after a couple of years living a bohemian lifestyle in London ). When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCreadle of publisher Rupert Hart-Davis who agreed to look at her manuscript, and in 1969, when she was ...
Such "shap'd" silks were produced in the London silk-weaving center of Spitalfields from around 1730 to 1760. [4] [5] The silk was designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite and woven by master weaver Peter Lekeux. Garthwaite's annotated design for the textile, dated October 1747, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, item 5985 ...
The design chosen for the York-Teck wedding was 'The May Silks'; the dress would feature embroidery of the emblems of a rose, shamrock and thistle, and be trimmed with the traditional orange blossom and true lovers knots. [3] Silver, renowned for his Art Nouveau designs, was also said to be much influenced by Japanese art in his design. [4]
Bizarre silks were woven on the drawloom, and the colorful patterns were brocaded or created with floating pattern wefts ().At the height of the fashion, the average repeat of a bizarre silk pattern was 27 inches (69 cm) high and ten inches (26 cm) wide, repeating twice across the width of the fabric. [4]
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John Clayton and Nathaniel Pattison's silk mill, the Old Mill, was built in 1753 [27] and finally demolished in 2003. It was a 29 bay, five-storey mill with an internal wheel-pit (for a waterwheel). It was a 29 bay, five-storey mill with an internal wheel-pit (for a waterwheel).
For Victoria Villanueva, pregnant with her first child, the drug detected in her baby’s system was morphine. Villanueva had arrived at an Indiana hospital at 41 weeks to have her labor induced ...