Spotlight on Shirley Craven and Hull Traders

An award-winning designer whose dazzling abstract prints revolutionised Britain's post-war textile scene

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Earlier this year, the Whitworth in Manchester opened up its large archive of textiles designed by one of most talented – but overlooked – textile designers of the twentieth century, Shirley Craven (b.1934). The gallery was transformed into a riot of bright colours and bold shapes that both evoked a vivid 1960s Pop Art palette and felt incredi…