Cultivating Creations: Gardens and fashion of the Victorian period

Packed with colour and pattern, interior designs vie with brightly coloured bedding schemes, and artificial flowers inside reflect artifice outside. Rich fashion fabrics are resolutely plain, but do the corsets and constrictions, bustles and flounces mirror the contrivances and deceptions in the garden where topiary and carpet bedding entertain? Inside and out are brought together in the middle-class home where ‘taste’ rules all.

Second part in a monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design. Each session is sold separately.