This print was inspired by a hand-painted shawl from The Liberty Archive - created in the mid-19th Century when paisley production increased in the UK and France. Shand Voyage furnishing fabric was designed to represent Mary's journey across the ocean, from India to Yorkshire; adorned with wild ferns and leaves, concealing a beautiful paisley, it symbolises the secret door behind which Mary discovers the Secret Garden. Soon after opening on London's Regent Street in 1875, trading exotic goods and textiles from the Far East, Arthur Liberty began working with local artisans and manufacturers to produce Liberty's own textiles and objets d'art. By the 1890s Liberty Art Fabrics were a byword for the very best of Avant Garde textile design.
