Kathleen Allington

Kathleen Allington
Born
Kathleen Kersey

1888 (1888)
DiedFebruary 2, 1986 (1986-02-03)
EducationWilliam Morris
Known forTextile designer at Morris & Co.
SpouseRev Charles Winford Allington[1]

Kathleen Allington (née Kersey 1889) was a British textile designer who produced wallpaper designs released by Morris & Co..[1]

Kersey was born in 1888, a daughter of Alice Steel and her husband, London architect, Alexander Henry Kersey of Kersey, Gale & Spooner.[1][2]

Designs

As a student she entered several drawings National Competition of Schools of Art in 1911.[1][3] The Victoria and Albert Museum holds several of these drawings including a pattern featuring green parakeets with flowers and fruits,[4] monkeys and squirrels,[5] and pink and green parrots.[6] In 2025, the latter, now titled "Parrots", was adapted and printed on a range of items, including aprons and oven gloves, for sale in the Victoria and Albert Museum Shop.[7]

Three designs published by Morris & Co. are attributed to Allington, as Kersey: "Arbutus" (1913),[8][9] "Verdure" (1913),[10] and "Bird and Pomegranate"(c. 1926).[11] Allington is also known to have created further designs as sketches.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Hardy, Emma. A Modern but Useful Art: William Morris, Jeffrey and Co. and the Morris & Co. Wallpapers 1864 c.1928 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy in Art History thesis). The Open University. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  2. ^ "Blott & Brimson Family Tree".
  3. ^ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
  4. ^ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  5. ^ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  6. ^ "Drawing". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  7. ^ "Kathleen Kersey kitchen textiles set". V&ASHop. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  8. ^ "Arbutus". Art Institute Chicago. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  9. ^ a b "Roll of Wallpaper (Arbutus) (Primary Title)". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  10. ^ "Verdure Wallpaper ca. 1955 (printed)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
  11. ^ "Bird and Pomegranate wallpaper (designed c.1926, printed 1950-1990)". William Morris Gallery. Retrieved 2025-09-02.
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