Kathleen Allington
Kathleen Allington | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kathleen Kersey 1888 |
| Died | February 2, 1986 |
| Education | William Morris |
| Known for | Textile designer at Morris & Co. |
| Spouse | Rev Charles Winford Allington[1] |
Kathleen Allington (née Kersey, 1888–2 Feb 1986)[2][3] was a British textile designer who produced wallpaper designs released by Morris & Co..[1]
Kersey was born in 1888, a daughter of Alice Steel and London architect Alexander Henry Kersey of Kersey, Gale & Spooner.[1][4]
Designs
As a student, she entered several drawings in the National Competition of Schools of Art in 1911.[1][5] The Victoria and Albert Museum holds several of these drawings, including a pattern featuring green parakeets with flowers and fruit,[6] monkeys and squirrels,[7] and pink and green parrots.[8] In 2025, the latter, now titled "Parrots", was adapted and printed on a range of items, including aprons and oven gloves, for sale in the Victoria and Albert Museum Shop.[9]
Three designs published by Morris & Co. are attributed to Allington, as Kersey: "Arbutus" (1913),[10][11] "Verdure" (1913),[12] and "Bird and Pomegranate" (c. 1926).[13] Allington is also known to have created additional designs in the form of sketches.[11]
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Hardy, Emma. A Modern but Useful Art: William Morris, Jeffrey and Co. and the Morris & Co. Wallpapers 1864 c.1928 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy in Art History thesis). The Open University. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 10 Apr 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Obituary for KATHLEEN ALINGTON". The Daily Telegraph. 1986-02-04. p. 24. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- ↑ "Blott & Brimson Family Tree".
- ↑ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
- ↑ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "Kathleen Kersey kitchen textiles set". V&ASHop. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "Arbutus". Art Institute Chicago. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- 1 2 "Roll of Wallpaper (Arbutus) (Primary Title)". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "Verdure Wallpaper ca. 1955 (printed)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
- ↑ "Bird and Pomegranate wallpaper (designed c.1926, printed 1950-1990)". William Morris Gallery. Retrieved 2025-09-02.