The Gardens Trust is delighted to be working with Linwood Fabrics to offer a treat of a lecture from garden historian Caroline Holmes, looking at the English gardens and their stories that inspire a 21st century textiles designer. What do the words ‘the English garden’ evoke for you? Flowers, arbors, horticultural abundance and voluptuous style? Five key examples of such Englishness inspired Ella Richards to create five glorious designs for Linwood Fabrics. Who and what are they? Gertrude Jekyll, Hestercombe, Albertine, Vita Sackville-West and Kitty Lloyd Jones. Five defining names in, out and about the long borders of English garden history. Caroline Holmes will prime the backdrop and weave their narrative before Ella introduces the patterns they inspired.
For 27 years Linwood has put excellence at the heart of everything they do, from the quality of their designs to their level of service. In that rather English way, they straddle the worlds of creativity and innovation to produce distinctive collections of fabrics and wallpapers.
The in-house design team draws its inspiration from textile archives, museums, and the natural world to create contemporary and classic prints, weaves, and wallpapers. Each collection is carefully crafted, and designs are still drawn and painted by hand.
They’ve chosen to create a lecture in conjunction with the Gardens Trust because of the shared appreciation of the British landscape. The Trust by its tireless work on conservation and preservation, and Linwood through its celebration of classic plants on its fabrics and wallpapers. Tickets are £5. Register through Eventbrite HERE.
