Editing Omega Workshops (section)

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{{Short description|Design enterprise founded by members of the Bloomsbury Group}}
[[File:Plate with Geometric Design Omega Worshops.jpg|thumb|Plate with an Omega design]]
[[File:London Foot Hospital, Fitzroy Square, London W1 - geograph.org.uk - 398675.jpg|right|thumb|[[33 Fitzroy Square]], London (from 1929 to 2003 the London Foot Hospital)]]
The '''Omega Workshops Ltd.''' was a design enterprise founded by members of the [[Bloomsbury Group]] and established in July 1913.<ref name=Shone>[[Richard Shone|Shone, Richard]]. (1999) ''The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant''. Princeton: [[Princeton University Press]], pp. 137-138. {{ISBN|0691049939}}</ref> It was located at [[33 Fitzroy Square]] in [[London]], and was founded with the intention of providing graphic expression to the essence of the Bloomsbury ethos.<ref name="poemhunter.com">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927054258/http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/bloomsbury/omega.htm ''Omega Workshops''] Victoria University Library, Toronto, 1997. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref> The Workshops were also closely associated with the [[Hogarth Press]] and the artist and critic [[Roger Fry]], who was the principal figure behind the project, believed that artists could design, produce and sell their own works, and that writers could also be their own printers and publishers.<ref>Porter, David H. (2008) ''The Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press: an artful fugue''. London: Cecil Woolf, p. 7. {{ISBN|9781897967096}}</ref> The Directors of the firm were Fry, [[Duncan Grant]] and [[Vanessa Bell]].<ref name=Shone/>