New Zealand born Avis Higgs is an award winning painter and one of Australasia’s most innovative textile designers of the 1940s.
Dilana rugs have just produced another run of Limited edition rugs of a design by Avis Higgs. Avis did a series of designs based on New Zealand flora, in her portfolio are two designs titled Kowhai - D19 and D22 (this vibrant design in grey and yellow).
Designed in Wellington in 1949 before she set out for Europe, here Avis has drawn the New Zealand native plant, the Kowhai. It was unusual to represent native flora on dress fabrics at this time, but Avis based several of her designs on them - Karaka Berries (D 20), Hebe, Native Rose (D10),Flax (D13), Fern,another…