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Collection: Council for Industial Design
Object Type: embroidery
Artist/Maker: McIntosh, Isobel
Media/Materials: black and yellow thread
Dimensions: overall drawing: 36.2 cm x 45.7 cm; overall embroidery: 63.5 cm x 45.6 cm; overall gouache: 41 cm x 40.5 cm

Description:

This exhibition panel (No. 11) includes the following: An embroidery was designed by the artist Leonard Rosoman and was created by Isobel McIntosh. It was created as part of the Richomnd Brothers Glenshee range. It has a pale red background with an image of an owl and the cat in a tree. Also attached to the panel is a gouache on paper for the same design along with the initial drawing in pen and ink on pink cloth. The panel also includes a Council of Industrial Design logo which includes an image of a needle being threaded. All images are framed and attached to the main panel.

Object Number: ABDRG2024.2.4