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Article: English textiles.(Gainshorough Silk Weaving Co.)(Brief Article)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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The bucolic setting of the town of Sudbury on the bonier between Suffolk and Essex Counties in England is well known through the works of two of the country's most venerated artists: John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough actually lived and worked in Sudhury and, when an entrepreneurial silk weaver named Reginald Metford Warner established a textile mill there in 1903, he named it after the artist. Warner's father, Metford Warner, was the proprietor of Jeffries and Company, which was well-known for the manufacture of wallpapers, some of them designed in collaboration with William Morris. The younger Warner, however, preferred weaving to printing, and as a ...