Kathleen Allington
Kathleen Allington (Kersey, 1888–2 Feb 1986) was a British textile designer who produced wallpaper designs released by Morris & Co. Kersey was born in 1888, a daughter of Alice Steel and London architect Alexander Henry Kersey of Kersey, Gale & Spooner.
Kathleen Allington
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- Name
- Kathleen Allington
- Birth Name
- Kathleen Kersey
- Born
- 1888
- Education
- William Morris
- Known for
- Textile designer at Morris & Co.
- Spouse
- Rev Charles Winford Allington
- Occupation
- designer
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Kathleen Allington (Kersey, 1888–2 Feb 1986) was a British textile designer who produced wallpaper designs released by Morris & Co. Kersey was born in 1888, a daughter of Alice Steel and London architect Alexander Henry Kersey of Kersey, Gale & Spooner.
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• Name — Kathleen Allington • Birth Name — Kathleen Kersey • Born — 1888 • Education — William Morris • Known for — Textile designer at Morris & Co. • Spouse — Rev Charles Winford Allington • Illustration — ”Arbutus”, detail Wallpaper Sample Book 1, page 63: Arbutus, pattern #493
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As a student, she entered several drawings in the National Competition of Schools of Art in 1911. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds several of these drawings, including a pattern featuring green parakeets with flowers and fruit, monkeys and squirrels, and pink and green parrots. 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. Three designs published by Morris & Co. are attributed to Allington, as Kersey: "Arbutus" (1913), "Verdure" (1913), and "Bird and Pomegranate" (c. 1926). Allington is also known to have created additional designs in the form of sketches.
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- 1.Hardy, Emma. A Modern but Useful Art: William Morris, Jeffrey and Co. and the Morris & Co. Wallpapers 1864 c.1928.
- 2.England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915. Ancestry.com.
- 3.Obituary for KATHLEEN ALINGTON. The Daily Telegraph. 24. 1986-02-04.
- 4.Blott & Brimson Family Tree.
- 5.Drawing. Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 6.Drawing. Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 7.Drawing. Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 8.Drawing. Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 9.Kathleen Kersey kitchen textiles set. V&ASHop.
- 10.Arbutus. Art Institute Chicago.
- 11.Roll of Wallpaper (Arbutus) (Primary Title). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
- 12.Verdure Wallpaper ca. 1955 (printed). Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 13.Bird and Pomegranate wallpaper (designed c.1926, printed 1950-1990). William Morris Gallery.
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