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"  &amp;quot;Art by the Yard&amp;quot; might be one of the most cheerful exhibits ever to brighten a museum&amp;#039;s walls. Bored with the drab interiors of postwar England, three women\u2014Lucienne Day, Marian Mahler, and Jacqueline Groag\u2014drafted eye-popping fabric patterns that brought the sunny colors and abstract shapes of modernist artists like Klee and Calder into middle-class homes. The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., has gathered 85 samples of the designers&amp;#039; work, such as Day&amp;#039;s charming Jack Sprat tea towel and Mahler&amp;#039;s whimsical repeats of flowers and temples. Together they illustrate how avant-garde design helped usher an ailing nation toward a prosperous future.  Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-century Britain, May 15\u2013September 12. The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; textilemuseum.org See more events from our Design Calendar. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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