Nancy Nicholson’s designs by descendancy

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Growing up in the wilds of Cumbria, textile artist Nancy Nicholson shared her family farmhouse with a menagerie of animals; her mother is a farmer, and her father the agricultural economist Kit Nicholson.

“There were sheep and pigs in the kitchen, and baby lambs under the bed,” Nicholson recalls. The experience is intrinsic to her creative practice; her precise and…