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Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles Indigenous authors shake down words andAn elegantly illustrated celebration of iconic Australian designer Frances Burke Frances Burke was Australia's most influential and celebrated textile designer of the 20th century. From the late 1930s to 1970, her designs achieved a prominence unparalleled in Australia before or since. Displaying imagery and colours from native flora, marine objects, Indigenous artefacts and designs of pure abstraction, Burke's innovative fabrics remain fresh and