European Feminist Research Conference

Women Designing

Grete Marks (1899-1990)

Grete Marks trained at art schools in Cologne and Dusseldorf before enrolling at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920. She studied ceramics with Gerhardt Marcks, but left without finishing the course. In 1923 Marks married Gustav Loebenstein and they established the Hael Werkstatten fur Kunstlerische Keramik. She took over the running of the factory,…

Dora Lunn (1881-?)

Dora Lunn was the daughter of Richard Lunn who taught ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. She attended evening classes at the Royal College of Art and gained a teaching qualification in 1907. Her involvement in the making of pottery arose from her desire to help her…

Joyce Clissold (1905-1982)

‘Footprints’ was a small textile printing workshop at Durham Wharf, on the river Thames, se up by Celandine Kennington in 1925. Its believed to have take its name from the practice of stamping on the carved woodblocks to print the patterns onto fabric. The workshop, managed by Gwen Pike supplied stock for Elspeth Little’s shop,…

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