Edmund Hunter
Edmund Hunter (1866-1937) was a British arts and crafts fabric designer. His designs reflected his interest in esoterica, and Celtic and Christian symbolism. He and his wife Dorothea notably were collaborators of W. Yeats and his Celtic Mystical Order and were both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Edmund Hunter
- Born
- 1857
- Died
- 1941
- Occupation
- designer
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Born in 1857, died in 1941.
Edmund Hunter (1857–1941) was a designer.
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- 1.Goodale, Ernest (1954) . “Furnishing fabrics of the past 200 years.” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 102, no. 4919, 1954, pp. 195–216. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41368271.
- 2.https://www.edmundsbury.co.uk/
- 3.Hunter, A. B. (1948). (III) The craftsman and design in the textile industry. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 96(4764), 224-236.
- 4.https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?page=1&page_size=15&q=Edmund+Hunter
- 5.https://whitworthcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/item/faf10407-c86f-3e45-889f-1678386e36ba/?s%3D%26filter%5Bcreation.place.hierarchy.summary.title.keyword%5D%5B%5D%3DUK%26filter%5BmatThe craftsman and design in the textile industryerial.value.keyword%5D%5B%5D%3Dlampas&pos=13
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