Louis Wain Fact #26:
Since Wain's mother was a church embroiderer, his father was a textile trader, and his namesake maternal grandfather was a tapestry designer, it’s likely that his later psychedelic patterns were influenced or inspired by the cloth patterns he spent his childhood surrounded by.
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