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Switch On 70’s (1972) Rare/Unique, Wall Hanging Fabric By Bernard Wardle, In Vibrant Colours, 1972
Switch On 70’s (1972) Rare/Unique, Wall Hanging Fabric By Bernard Wardle, In Vibrant Colours, 1972 Switch On 70’s (1972) Rare/Unique, Wall Hanging Fabric By Bernard Wardle, In Vibrant Colours, 1972 Switch On 70’s (1972) Rare/Unique, Wall Hanging Fabric By Bernard Wardle, In Vibrant Colours, 1972

Switch On 70’s (1972) Rare/Unique, Wall Hanging Fabric By Bernard Wardle, In Vibrant Colours, 1972

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Switch on 70’s (1972) RARE/UNIQUE, Wall Hanging Fabric by Bernard Wardle, in vibrant colours, 1972 

Description – An extremely cool and of the moment large remnant of the period. 

Seductive and Sexy in vibrant colour this 178 x 121 cm width (70 x 48 in) of Bernard Wardle Company Ltd fabric is complete with detailed selvedge.

Switch on 70’s is a RARE /UNIQUE, Wall Hanging Fabric of Museum Quality from 1972.

It is likely this Bernard Wardle Company Ltd fabric is a one-off example sample. 

This fluent, colourful and graceful composition embraces the seventies beauty, sexual sophistication and revolution within a flowing composition. A concept and a juxtaposition which embraces liberation and change as thoughts, ideas and life style choices emerged more free thinking than the 1950s and 1960s. 

Artist: Bernard Wardle Company Ltd
Title: Switch On 70s
Limited Edition: Very, very Rare
Year: 1972
Signed: Bernard Wardle to fabric selvedge 
Medium: Vibrant 11 colour screen print on cotton.
Published: By Bernard Wardle Company Ltd
Other Blind stamps: Title and Company on selvedge
Dimensions: 178 x 121 cm width (70 x 48 in).
Framed: No 
Condition: Stored flat and in excellent condition for age never hung or framed, no sunfade or holes

Postage and Packing – Due to geographical location Postage and insurance varies if required. 

Within this Art Auction, Items Can be combined for best value postage. 
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About the Art and the Artist:
Bernard Wardle Company Ltd were an established Printers and Weavers of Furnishing Fabrics of all types, including Hand and Roller Printer Linens, Chintzes and Cretonnesm. 

All Woven Fabrics before the Welsh factory's closure in 1980 where of a traditional pattern of flowers and motiffs in the Victorian manner.  

Switch On 70 is a transition away from that stayed Victorian style addressing the narratives of the day.
Limited Edition: Very, very Rare, 1972    

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