Liberty Tana Lawn™ Ianthe Blue Oxford Pillowcase

100% Cotton

Size: 48cm x 74cm

Ianthe was created by well-known French Ar t Nouveau designer R. Beauclair in approximately 1900, and was later redrawn by David Haward’s Studio. Ianthe is Greek for purple or violet flowers, suggesting that the flowers in the design may have originally been drawn from violets.

First sold in London in the 1920s, Liberty buyer William Hayes Dorell named the famous cotton after Lake Tana, where the Egyptian cotton had been grown and discovered. Back on home soil, the silk-like long staple threads were spun into lustrous form and printed in Lancashire using copper rollers with brilliant colours dyes. A material was born with qualities that have sparked the imagination of generations to follow. It was, of course, Tana Lawn™.

A famous masterpiece of fabric technology. Tana Lawn™ is fine, cool and durable with a silk-like feel. A perfect quality to achieve a brilliant reproduction of Liberty’s rich textile designs. Its bespoke process has been fine tuned by Liberty’s fabric experts over the last 100 years, advancing the products performance, perfecting the printing quality and detail that can be achieved. Today, Tana Lawn™ is continually evolving as Liberty Fabrics refines its methods and works with new technologies to secure its reputation as the best printed cotton available.