Person    | Female  Born 14/3/1688  Died 1763

Anna Maria Garthwaite

Categories: Craft / Design

Fabric designer. Born Leicestershire. Moved with her sister to Princes (now Princlet) Street in 1728. Many of her over 1000 designs for Spitalfield silks survive at the V&A Museum and she has been called the "pre-eminent silk designer of her period". Her place and date of death are unknown but her will was proved in 1758. We have taken her dates (which conflict with the plaque) from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. No images seem to exist of her person so we illustrate this entry with one of her splendid designs.

2017: The equally splendid Spitalfields Life have a page for Garthwaite.

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Anna Maria Garthwaite

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Anna Maria Garthwaite

English Heritage Anna Maria Garthwaite, 1690 - 1763, designer of Spitalfields...

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Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)

The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spita...

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Hanbury Hall - tiled plaque

These 20 Delft tiles are decorated with scenes and symbols important in Hugue...

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Other Subjects

Spitalfields weaving industry

Spitalfields weaving industry

Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were skilled silk weavers and set up looms in their homes in Spitalfields. The Spitalfields textile trade thrived until the mi...

Concept, Commerce, Craft / Design

2 memorials
Mary Lowndes

Mary Lowndes

Artist, suffragette and founder of Artist Suffrage League in 1909. Born Dorset. Trained in stained-glass work. Lived and worked in Chelsea. The photo shows Lowndes in 1890.

Person, Art, Craft / Design, Gender Issues

1 memorial
George Tinworth

George Tinworth

Ceramic artist. Born 6 Milk Street, SE5. The whole area has been rebuilt but Milk Street used to run parallel to Red Lion Row, just to the east. From Mapping of Sculpture: "... enrolled at Lambeth...

Person, Art, Craft / Design

4 memorials
David M. Gibson

David M. Gibson

Stonemason, letter carver, memorial artist and calligrapher. Based in West Sussex. Website.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Dame Lucie Rie

Dame Lucie Rie

Potter. Née Gompertz in Vienna into a rich, intellectual family. 1938 she and her husband fled Nazism intending to go to the USA but Lucie, already more interested in her work than her husband, dec...

Person, Craft / Design, Austria

1 memorial