'Davenport' entered the Watts canon with G. F. Bodley, however its design origins are found in Venice from around the 14th century. A version is famously featured in the painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, which is likely where Bodley first saw it. Similar designs can be seen in 16th-century Italian textiles, now housed in The Met collection. The Watts pattern is named after two of our directors: F. W. Davenport and J. L. Davenport, the former being responsible for naming some of our fabrics in reference to Old Masters.

'Davenport' is woven as a cotton damask in a variety of colours, and is used for both our Davenport and Bodley ranges of stock vestments.

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