Voysey Lisburn

Designed by Voysey in 1902 for Liberty and made in Donegal, Ireland

C.F.A.VOYSEY LISBURN CARPET c.1899
A Donegal carpet designed by C.F.A.Voysey, woven for Liberty’s. Several Donegal carpet designs were created by Voysey, although few seem to have originated as designs for carpets.
Voysey himself wrote in 1895 ‘Simplicity in decoration is one of the essential qualities without which no true richness is possible’
While Voysey deplored foreign influences on design, and even went so far as to distrust foreign travel for the same reasons, his own work was first shown abroad and much admired at the Paris Exhibition of 1899.
Moral and spiritual values run through the whole of Voysey’s work, both as architect and designer and on one occasion his contemporary, Walter Crane, suggested that such was Voysey’s influence that there was some danger that oak or green stained furniture and white-washed walls would come to be considered an outward and visible sign of an inward spiritual grace, ‘when perhaps they are only a fashion’.

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