Acanthus cretonne

Details

Date: designed c.1882
Dimensions: 92.7 x 81.9
Object Type: textile
Material: printed cotton
Technique: block-printed
Catalogue number: F65
Designer: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Retailer: Century Guild
Manufacturer: Simpson & Godlee
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

This is one of the Century Guild’s most successful designs, it features scrolling and interwoven brambles with clusters of blackberries, enclosing pairs of squirrels holding nuts. The Century Guild monogram is incorporated in the design. Whilst some of AH Mackmurdo’s designs for textiles were too large and busy, this design features clear outlines, a harmonious repeat and is an approriate scale for a furnishing fabric. The design was also produced in cotton in a red colourway and also as a velveteen.

Details

Date: designed c.1882
Dimensions: 43.2 x 61
Object Type: textile
Material: printed cotton
Technique: block-printed
Catalogue number: F64
Designer: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Retailer: Century Guild
Manufacturer: Simpson & Godlee
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: designed c. 1880
Object Type: textile
Material: printed cotton
Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed
Catalogue number: F54d
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: Presented by Miss F.J Lefroy, 1951

Part of a collection of sixteen fragments of various sizes, originally from an upholstered Morris & Co. armchair. As the production process used three separate printing dyes; indigo, red (alizarin) & yellow (weld), it took a number of days to produce ‘Strawberry Thief’ and was consequently one of the firms most expensive cottons. However, it remained to be one of Morris’ most popular designs.

A set of printing blocks for Strawberry Thief, cut by the Firm of Barretts of Bethnal Green Road, London, are now in the V&A Museum.

Details

Date: designed c. 1880
Dimensions: 47 x 64.7
Object Type: textile
Material: printed cotton
Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed
Catalogue number: F54c
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: Presented by Miss F.J Lefroy, 1951

Part of a collection of sixteen fragments of various sizes, originally from an upholstered Morris & Co. armchair.

As the production process used three separate printing dyes; indigo, red (alizarin) & yellow (weld), it took a number of days to produce ‘Strawberry Thief’ and was consequently one of the firms most expensive cottons. However, it remained to be one of Morris’ most popular designs. A set of printing blocks for Strawberry Thief, cut by the firm of Barretts of Bethnal Green Road, London, are now in the V&A Museum, London.

Material: printed cotton

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