Joyce Clissold

Joyce Clissold was a student of Rooke and Adeney at the Central School between 1924 and 1927. Whilst still a student, Clissold worked at Footprints, a workshop founded at Durham Wharf, Hammersmith in 1925 by Elspeth Little (also a Central student), Gwen Pike and Celandine Kennington. Footprints was established to design and to supply textiles for Little's shop, Modern Textiles, which opened in London in 1926. Clissold returned to Footprints in 1927, taking it over in 1929 and creating all subsequent designs. By 1933 the Footprints studio had moved to Brentford and enjoyed continuing prosperity, opening two London shops in the mid to late 1930s. Clissold taught textile design at the Central from 1936 to 1940 and after the war continued to run Footprints on a smaller scale until her death in 1982. Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design holds a substantial Clissold collection and the copyright of her designs.