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This Cirque celebrates our shared heritage

The album has 97 amazingly bright patterns for woven silk fabric that were painted in watercolour in the 18th century

Day became the Artistic Director of the Lancashire cotton printers

The background is subtly mottled

V & A DECORATIVE PAPERS Wallpaper Pattern No 2311-166-04 Clay contemporaryKilburn's Coral The Victoria & Albert Museum has in its collection a unique album of 223 exquisite watercolour textile designs by William Kilburn. Born in Ireland, he moved to London and worked as a botanical illustrator before establishing himself in the textile industry and ultimately managing his own calico printing factory at Wallington in Surrey. Admired and intimidated by his fellow designers, Kilburn created fantastic and pleasing patterns that