Edith Jagger

Edith Jagger (1881-1977) was a British artist and textile designer. She specialized in textile design and was Chief Designer at Painted Fabrics Limited in Sheffield for fourteen years. Her oil paintings of still lifes and flower subjects were exhibited internationally throughout the 1930s.

Edith Jagger was born in Kilnhurst, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire in 1881, the first child of Enoch and Mary Elizabeth Jagger. She attended St. Thomas’ School, Kilnhurst and was brought up a Methodist.

Jagger studied at Sheffield Technical School of Art, alongside her younger brother, sculptor, Charles Sargeant Jagger. In 1907 she submitted a winning entry in the National Art Schools Competition arranged by the South Kensington Museum.

Initially, Jagger wanted to become a painter of horses, however she spent several years painting local landscapes. Having moved to Sheffield she became heavily involved with the administration of the Sheffield Society of Artists, becoming an Associate Member in 1911 and elected a full member in 1931. She was fiercely independent and never married. She was known as an expert needleworker and a consummate colourist, who was highly receptive to current trends within the worlds of art and music.

Jagger is most well known for her contribution as Chief Designer for Painted Fabrics Limited, a position she held for fourteen years. Painted Fabrics Ltd developed from occupational therapy for injured British servicemen at Wharncliffe War Hospital in Sheffield, many of whom had been seriously invalided during the First World War, including severe shell shock and the loss of limbs. Painted Fabrics offered a combination of physical and psychological rehabilitation through the artistic and entrepreneurial talents of a small group of women.

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