Lunar Rocket
Object Details
- Designer
- Eddie Squires, (British, 1940–1995)
- Printer
- Stead McAlpin & Co., (Carlisle, England)
- For
- Warner Fabrics, (London, England)
- Description
- Parallel stripes of rising Saturn 5 rockets in red and orange, with the moon and two images of the Apollo 9 capsule falling to the earth's surface, on a background of deep blue dotted with stars.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eddie Squires and Richard Reiche
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 1991-102-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Object Name
- Textile
- Type
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: screen printed with 5 screens on plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W: 295 × 124.1 cm (9 ft. 8 1/8 in. × 48 7/8 in.)
- Repeat H: 75.5 cm (29 3/4 in.)
- made in
- London, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1991-102-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq408a129c4-4388-4c7a-8ba1-935ac9cab457
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