This course will explore the innovative and pioneering designers that came to the forefront of the textiles industry from the twenties onwards and how changes in British industry due to world events and economic changes prompted a new response to designer and new machinery enabled high quality textiles to reach everyone not just the elite. Andrew Casey met and interviewed Lucienne Day in 1992 for his final degree dissertation. His book Lucienne Day: In the Spirit of the Age was published in 2014.