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==Publishing and textile design== After a period in the early 1930s living with [[Geoffrey Phibbs|Geoffrey Taylor]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/index.htm|title=Ricorso: Digital materials for the study and appreciation of Anglo-Irish Literature|website=www.ricorso.net}}</ref> on a houseboat moored in [[Hammersmith]], Nancy set up the [[Poulk Press]],<ref>[[Lesley Jackson]], ''20th Century Pattern Design: Textile & Wallpaper Pioneers'' (2002), p. 70.</ref> in which she collaborated for a time with him. They lived near [[Sutton Veny]], [[Wiltshire]], in a timber house designed by Nancy and built with family labour.<ref>Terence Brown, ''Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays'' (1988), p. 144.</ref> Her relationship with Taylor lasted five years.<ref>Barker, p. 213.</ref> She worked at this period with her brother [[Ben Nicholson|Ben]] and his wife [[Barbara Hepworth]] on textiles. Undeterred by the failure of the Boars Hill shop, in the 1940s she ran a business in [[Motcomb Street]], London. Her designs influenced her sister-in-law [[EQ Nicholson]].<ref>''The Nicholsons: A Story of Four People and their Designs'', p. 56.</ref> Her work was exhibited at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in 1976.
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