University of Glasgow Library
Carpet design
Stoddard-Templeton Archive: Magic Carpets
This lunchtime I was in the Hunterian Museum giving the Hunterian Insight talk. I was talking about the Stoddard-Templeton Archive, which is full of fantastic resources from the world’s leading carpet manufacturers. I was showing off some of our design sketches – including some by Mary Quant, our chenille fabric sample, and a Templetonian (staff … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard-Templeton Archive
Our Friday Gem series is coming to an end. We’ll still be promoting items from the collection here, but as the cataloguing project draws to an end, we’re putting the Friday Gem into retirement. You can see all the Friday Gem images on our flickr site. We hope you’ve enjoyed them all.
Friday Gem from the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive: Carpets
For this week’s gem we have chosen a selection of carpets – the finished product. The heritage carpet collection retained by Stoddard International plc encapsulates the history of Scottish carpet manufacture including examples of tapestry velvet, chenilles, axminsters and pictorial carpeting. The collection is now held by Glasgow Museums as part of their textile collection.
Friday Gem from the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive: Sport
Over the past eight months, we’ve highlighted a number of contract carpets – those made to order, including those for luxury liners, for Glasgow Cathedral, and for the coronation of George VI. In addition to these prestigious commissions, Stoddard, Templeton and the other companies included in the collection were also commissioned by public bodies, businesses … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive: Peacocks Parade & Safari Park
Today I’m highlighting two of my (very many) favourite items from the design archive. These small painted boards were among the first items that caught my eye when I started working with the collection over four years ago and they still grab my attention. I don’t quite know if I would want to walk across … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
This week’s gem from the Stoddard - Templeton Design Archive is a small design attributed to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Glasgow born artist, designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), as we all probably know, is today celebrated internationally as one of the most significant figures in design history in the late 19th and early 20th … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Silver Studio
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a selection of designs ascribed to the Silver Studio. In 1880 Arthur Silver, a pupil of H. W. Batley and who has been the subject of a previous post, founded the Silver Studio. The studio produced countless patterns for wallpaper, textiles and floorcoverings, as well as … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Agnes Pinder Davis
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a collection of designs by Agnes Pinder Davis from the 1930s. Agnes Pinder Davis was a well known and well respected artist/designer in the 1930s. She produced countless designs for ceramic firms such as Royal Doulton and Crown Staffordshire, specialising in tea and dinner services as … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Picture
This week’s gems from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive come from a drawer entitled “Picture”. When I opened the drawer to begin cataloguing what was inside, I must admit that, going by the title of the drawer alone, I didn’t really know what to expect. However, of all things, I certainly didn’t expect to find what … Continue reading
Friday Gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive: Cyanotypes
This week’s Stoddard Templeton Friday Gem comes from the Archive’s Associated Design Records, and features a small number of cyanotypes, or blueprints, of early Templeton carpet designs (STOD/201/1/7/23). Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that gives a cyan-blue print. It was popular in engineering circles well into the 20th century as the simple and low-cost … Continue reading
view our photos on flickr
