Arthur Silver

After leaving art school Arthur Silver was apprenticed to furniture designer Henry William Batley.

Isabella was no exception to the rule - she inherited the Walenn love of music and spent many years with the Royal Choral Society.

[5] The Studio produced designs for wallpapers and textiles which they sold to clients such as Liberty (department store), In 1890, Arthur Silver produced a series of photographic reproductions of items from the South Kensington Museum, intended as inspiration for textile manufacturers, his clients.

[6] In 1893, he was commissioned to design the silks for the wedding dress of Princess Mary of Teck, which were woven by Warner & Sons, a firm with which he worked regularly.

[9][10] He was a member of The Japan Society of the UK, and the materials he acquired included around four hundred Ise-katagami, or Japanese stencils, which he used as inspiration for his designs.