Well, what a day. Today I finally got to see the fabrics created from my winning #LibertyOpenCall design for sale on the shelves of Liberty! It was the first time seeing them for real. We only saw the strike offs when we visited the factory in Milan. The fabrics looks fantastic, brilliant quality and great colours. I have three colourway of one design ‘Duncan Grant’ on Tana Lawn and three of a second design ‘Small Town’ on silk.
To mark the launch, the store was decorated with panels of our fabrics and information about each of the four winners all the way up the stairs and around the Haberdashery Department.
We were treated to breakfast with the design and sales team and then signed copies of our original designs, which will go into the famous Liberty archive.
We each received 5metres of one of our fabrics – I chose the one closest to my original design in terms of colour, and then I couldn’t resist buying a metre of each of the others. 
All six will make an appearance at my What a Liberty! exhibition at the Hot Tin from 18th May, if you want to see them and can’t make it to the store. https://duncangrantartist.com/event/exhibition-of-small-towns-to-coincide-with-liberty-london-open-call-launch/
As one part of the journey ends, another begins. We’ll be kept informed of how our fabrics are used. So if, say, a fashion house uses one of our designs of fabrics for a garment in their 2020 season collections, Liberty will tell us and will keep our names with the designs as far as they can.
Will let you know about any developments on here. Thanks to everyone who has encouraged me, voted for me and supported me so far. One of you is getting a pair of designer boxers. You know who you are!
Here are the links to my fabrics on the Liberty website:
DUNCAN GRANT https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/search?q=duncan+grant
SMALL TOWN https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/search?q=small+town
Originals of my Small Town Ink Drawings and digital prints are available in my Gallery:
ORIGINALS https://duncangrantartist.com/product-category/original-artwork/drawing-ink/
PRINTS https://duncangrantartist.com/product-category/prints/ink-drawing/
Have been excited on your behalf and intend to gave a metre of each eventually! 1 down 5 to go!
Glad you like them I’ve got 5 metres of the green Tan Lawn and a metre of each. They will be on display along with other design work and Smalltowns at the Hottin in Faversham from the evening of May 18th.looking forward to see what you create from the fabric. Post a pic… Dunc
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