Hull born textile designer and mother of one Pat Albeck studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1950s and is best known for creating special tea towels for the National Trust. Food, fish and fashion have provided the inspiration for many of her designs and of being asked to create William Morris-style works, she once commented: “My father was a William Morris socialist and Morris was God in our household, so to copy him would have felt like sacrilege”. Albeck’s daughter-in-law is the well-known ceramicist Emma Bridgewater and when she’s torn away from her desk, this octogenarian best likes “eating and being in the garden”. On BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in March 2015, Pat Albeck responded to a question about what has brought her success by stating: “Do what you would like and what you would buy”.
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