Roger Limbrick Palace Textile Wall Art – Op Art Mid Century Modern Hull Traders

Roger Limbrick — Palace, 1966. Original hand screen-printed furnishing fabric for Hull Traders Ltd. This exact design is held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London — one of 123 Hull Traders objects in the V&A. Roger Limbrick himself is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Professionally stretched over a new wooden frame. 101 cm × 91 cm. Excellent vintage condition.

In the V&A. In MoMA. Featured in the 1966 Design Journal.

Palace was photographed in the 1966 Design Journal in an article entitled "New Thinking" — alongside Bernard Holdaway's tomotom cardboard furniture, one of the decade's defining Pop design objects. That company — alongside Holdaway, Paolozzi, Ivon Hitchens — tells you everything about where Hull Traders and Roger Limbrick sat in the culture of 1960s British design: at the absolute centre of it.

Roger Limbrick and Hull Traders

Roger Limbrick (b.1933) studied at the Royal College of Art in London — Britain's most prestigious design school — alongside Shirley Craven, John Drummond, Althea McNish, and Doreen Dyall. Hull Traders' hand screen-printed furnishing fabrics were their speciality in the 1960s, produced under art director Shirley Craven, who selected designs from a remarkable roster that included sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, artist Ivon Hitchens, and the collaborative Hammer Prints (photographer Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi). Limbrick was one of Craven's most trusted and frequently commissioned designers — his geometric compositions appearing across multiple Hull Traders collections throughout the decade.

Palace

Designed in 1966 at the height of the Op Art movement, Palace deploys bold geometric shapes and rhythmic colour contrasts in heavy cotton satin, printed in four colourways — the scale and confidence of the composition demanding a large wall to do it justice. The dynamic visual effect shifts with light and perspective in the way only the finest Op Art textile designs do — this is not a static print but a surface that behaves differently at different times of day.

This piece has been handcrafted using rare, original vintage Hull Traders fabric, professionally stretched over a newly constructed wooden frame — transforming a collectible furnishing fabric into a gallery-quality textile artwork. The colours remain deep, rich, and wonderfully vibrant, a testament to the quality of mid-century hand screen-printing.

Specifications

Condition

Excellent vintage condition. Colours remain deep, rich, and vibrant. As with all genuine vintage textiles, minor age-related characteristics may be present — entirely consistent with a piece of this age and adding to its authentic character.

A genuine piece of British design at the height of its powers — in the world's great museum collections, and now available for your wall.

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