Henrietta Walker

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Henrietta Walker was a dyer and weaver who, according to Eveline Syme, was responsible for the original exploitation of Victorian barks, grasses and vegetable dyes in her work making baskets and rugs.

dyer and weaver, was responsible for 'the original exploitation of Victorian barks, rushes, grasses and vegetable dyes in the making of baskets and rugs’, according to Eveline Syme in her article 'Women and Art’ in Fraser & Nettie Palmer (eds), Centenary Gift Book , Melbourne 1934, 86.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011