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Susannah Margaretta "Daisy" Makeig-Jones (1881–1945) was a pottery designer for Wedgwood. [1] She is best known for her Fairyland Lustre series. [2] [3] [4]Makeig-Jones was born in Wath-upon-Dearne near Rotherham, Yorkshire, the eldest of seven children.
[10] [20] The fabric extended from the base of the tree to cover the entire stage. [23] The wrapping was inspired by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who were known for wrapping buildings and landmarks in fabric for their large-scale, site-specific art installations. [11] [45] Forty-two looks were presented in two phases.
McQueen enlisted Ungless to create printed fabric based on Escher's designs, and Ungless, then a print technician at CSM, stole fabric from the school to use as a base. [10] [26] Ungless laid out a concept based on McQueen's request to have a print with "garden birds", but described the result as "awful – like a Christmas card gone wrong". [14]
Her flower fairy paintings, in particular, were driven by the Victorian popularity of fairies and fairy stories. Cicely Mary Barker published her first Flower Fairies book in 1923. [3] She received £25 for Flower Fairies of the Spring, a collection of twenty-four paintings and illustrations.
The "bias-cut" is a technique used by designers for cutting clothing to utilize the greater stretch in the bias or diagonal direction of the fabric, thereby causing it to accentuate body lines and curves and drape softly. For example, a full-skirted dress cut on the bias will hang more gracefully or a narrow dress will cling to the figure.
The male in breeding plumage has a silvery blue crown, ear coverts and upper back, a black throat and nape, bright red-brown shoulders, a long grey-brown tail and wings, and a greyish-white belly. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour, though males may retain traces of blue and black plumage.
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A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story is a children's book by Berkeley Breathed that was published in 1991. It was made into an animated television special that same year. The book and special feature characters from Breathed's comic strips Bloom County and Outland .