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Unread 02-10-2009, 07:06 PM
Janet Kenny Janet Kenny is offline
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I used to spend hours in Liberty's of London just off Regent Street. It is magnificent. It is very large and occupies several storeys. It has antique creaking wooden floors. The sound of them while walking was one of the great pleasures. They were full of delightful objets d'art. They were a source of miraculous rich colour. Their fabric designs are famous. They used a great deal of paisley design but also they leaned towards peacock feathers. I can remember a bizarre collection of leather hippopotamuses and I bought a friend a gift of a brooch that looked like amber but was really plastic, a superbly lifelike blowfly in transparent golden "amber". It was a shop for the lover of colour and quality and the fantastic. A shop for Oscar Wilde. People who made patchwork used to haunt it. Liberty's silk scarves are collectors' items. William Morris was a huge influence.

The liberty garments you mention Sam would be paisley and made of some gorgeous fabric. They might be fine wool or cotton but the colours would be unforgettable and subtle.

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