Oswin wallpaper

Details

Date: designed c.1895
Dimensions: 49.5 x 56.5
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: machine printed
Catalogue number: B59
Designer: Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley, 1857, 1941
Manufacturer: Essex & Co, London
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Edward Unwin, 1956

The Oswin wallpaper was design by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey about 1895, it was machine-printed by Essex & Co wallpaper manufacturers. It is a repeating pattern of diagonally-running foliage interspersed with large and small flowers. The pattern repeat size is 40.6 x 17.8 cm.

Voysey also used the design for a silk and wool double cloth, also called Oswin, manufactured by Alexander Morton & Co.