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Printed Textile - Printed Fabric - Medway

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1941M423
Collection:Applied Art - Textiles
Date:1885 - 1885

Maker Information

Designer:William Morris - View biography for William Morris
Manufacturer:Morris & Co - View history

Notes

Fairclough and Leary site the influence of the diagonal arrangement in a 15th-century Italian cut velvet acquired in 1883 by the South Kensington Museum on Morris's designs of this period.

Purchased from Morris & Co through Friends of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1940

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
School/Style:Arts and Crafts Textile
Medium:Linen, indigo discharge and block printed.
Material(s):Cotton

Dimensions

Height:655 mm
Width:945 mm