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{{short description|Crafts collector, curator, gallery owner and writer}}
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'''Muriel Rose''' (1897–1986) was a collector and publiciser of modern craft and design, a curator, gallery owner and writer, and important in the [[Arts and Crafts movement#Later influences|later Arts and Crafts movement]].<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/> She has been described as having "made a formidable contribution to the development of the crafts".<ref name="Vacher"/>
Rose was born in 1897.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/> She initially worked with [[Dorothy Hutton]] at the Three Shields Gallery in [[Kensington]].<ref name="Brighton">{{cite web |title=Muriel Rose and the Little Gallery |url=http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives/resources/Women-Designing-1994/European-Feminist-Research-Conference/muriel-rose-and-the-little-gallery |website=University of Brighton Design Archives |publisher=University of Brighton |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref> She and Margaret Turnbull started their own gallery, the Little Gallery, at 5 Ellis Street near [[Sloane Square]] in London in 1928.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/> They sold crafts sourced through the [[Rural Industries Bureau Scheme]], established to support mining communities in Wales and in Durham.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Brighton"/><ref name="VandA">{{cite web |title=Tea cosy |url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O94114/tea-cosy-rose-muriel |website=V&A Search the Collections |publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref> Rose "played a major role in re-establishing patchwork and quilting in Wales".<ref name="VandA"/> The notes she made of her meetings with the women from mining communities whose work she sold give insight into the social conditions of the time.<ref name="Vacher"/>
The shop also sold the work of [[Phyllis Barron]], [[Dorothy Larcher]], [[Enid Marx]], [[Catherine Cobb|Catherine Cockerell]], [[Tirzah Garwood]], [[Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie]], [[Norah Braden]], [[Bernard Leach]], [[Shōji Hamada]] and [[Michael Cardew]].<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Brighton"/><ref name="Cooper">{{cite journal |last1=Cooper |first1=Emmanuel |title=Muriel Rose: A Modern Crafts Legacy |journal=Ceramic Review |date=2007 |volume=225 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5784b8d1b8a79b20f4381bc5/t/5832ed5a2e69cfe8ead3a0e0/1479732572366/Ceramic_Review_MayJune07.pdf |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref> It was also an outlet for crafts from other parts of the world.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Brighton"/><ref name="Cooper"/> The shop closed in 1940.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/>
Following this, Rose, with Bernard Leach, selected British crafts to be exhibited in America.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/> This became the Exhibition of Modern British Crafts, first displayed at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York in 1942, and then around America and Canada for the next three years.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/><ref name="Cooper"/> This led to the [[British Council]] beginning its own collection of crafts, with Rose as the Council's Crafts and Industrial Design Officer.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/><ref name="VADS">{{cite web |title=Crafts Study Centre: Muriel Rose |url=https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=22099&sos=0 |publisher=VADS |accessdate=30 June 2020}}</ref> In 1946, she curated an exhibition of British rural handicrafts which travelled to Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=White |first=Moira |date=2022-11-02 |title=Mid-20th century British ceramics in Aotearoa |url=https://tuhinga.arphahub.com/article/82337/ |journal=Tuhinga |language=en |volume=33 |pages=33–46 |doi=10.3897/tuhinga.33.82337 |doi-access=free |issn=2253-5861}}</ref>
Rose was one of the organisers of the 1952 International Conference of Potters and Weavers at [[Dartington Hall]].<ref name="Vacher"/> Her book ''The Artist Potter in England'' (1954) was the first history of British studio pottery.<ref name="Vacher"/>
Rose was one of the founders and trustees of the [[Crafts Study Centre]], and left her own collection and archive to it.<ref name="Vacher"/><ref name="Archives"/><ref name="Cooper"/><ref name="Culture24">{{cite web |title=Muriel Rose At The Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey |url=https://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/military-history/world-war-two/art41366 |publisher=Culture24 |accessdate=30 June 2020 |date=10 November 2006}}</ref>
In the 1970s, Rose lived in [[Coggeshall]] in [[Essex]].<ref name="Vacher"/> She died in 1986.<ref name="Archives"/>
In 2020 a textile exhibition at [[Two Temple Place]] included work collected by Rose.<ref name="Times">{{cite news |last1=Spence |first1=Rachel |title=A London exhibition takes the history of textiles out of the shadows |
url=https://www.ft.com/content/5f0cdfe4-549e-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f |accessdate=29 June 2020 |work=The Financial Times |date=27 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Judah |first1=Hettie |title=A tangled, teasing show: Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles – review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/31/unbound-visionary-women-collecting-textiles-review |accessdate=29 June 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=31 Jan 2020}}</ref>
==Further reading==
* ''[https://issuu.com/studiohyde/docs/murielrose Muriel Rose: A Modern Crafts Legacy]'' (2008) ed. Jean Vacher
* ''Muriel Rose and the Little Gallery'' (1989) by Kate Woodhead
* "Muriel Rose – One Woman's Crusade for British Craft" (2006), in ''Selvedge Magazine''
* Section on Rose in ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=wU-8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PP13 The Complete Book of Basketry]'' (2013) by Dorothy Wright
* [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5784b8d1b8a79b20f4381bc5/t/5832f1c2b3db2be72dde10a5/1479733700910/TheQuilterSummer2007_1.pdf "Muriel Rose" by Carolyn Ferguson, ''The Quilter'', Summer 2007]
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/26fd1eee-61fc-3e67-8eb0-b89ccd95d13e Muriel Rose archive] at [[University for the Creative Arts]]
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