Enid Marx Patterns - Cambridge Imprint
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Enid Marx Patterns

Enid Marx, always known as ‘Marco’, was a contemporary and friend of Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and Peggy Angus at the Royal College of Art, and later an apprentice of innovative textile block-printers Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in the mid-1920s. She was a versatile illustrator, a printmaker, and a designer of book jackets, stamps and all sorts of ephemera, which were designed for and printed by the Curwen Press.
She was fascinated by English popular art, and together with her partner Margaret Lambert assembled an important collection. She is probably most famous for designing, in 1937, an industrial textile: a pattern for the seats on the London Underground which continued to be used for decades.
We are really pleased to collaborate with the Compton Verney Estate to reproduce these two exuberant yet delicate hand-printed textiles as patterned paper.