Golden Bough, woven

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Date: Designed c.1888
Dimensions: 65 x 65
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: hand-loom jacquard woven
Catalogue number: F406
Attributed designer: Dearle, John Henry (1859 - 1932)
Attributed designer: Morris, William (1834 - 1896)
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Ms A McEwan, 1998

Described by May Morris as ‘fit for a queen’s chamber’, this luxurious fabric is one of the last textile designs attributed to her father. Woven at Merton Abbey on hand-activated Jacquard looms, its shimmering texture is created by the contrast between the linen ground and silk pattern. In addition to its use within wealthy homes, Golden Bough was also popular for church furnishing, a profitable aspect of Morris’s business.

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Date: designed 1876, made 1880s
Dimensions: 267 x 150
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: hand-embroidered
Catalogue number: F434
Designer: Morris, William (1834 - 1896)
Maker: Morris (née Burden) | Jane | 1839 | 1914
Maker: Morris, Jenny (1861 - 1935)
Credit notes: Purchased with support from The Art Fund and The Friends of the William Morris Gallery, 2013

Jane Morris was a skillful embroiderer but this is one of very few surviving pieces that can be definitively attributed to her hand. She worked it with her eldest daughter, Jenny basing the design on an original 1876 design by William Morris.

The design was sold through the Royal School of Art Needlework in London in the late 1870s. This version was exhibited at the first Arts and Crafts exhibition in 1888. Later it was sent by May Morris, the younger daughter of Jane and William Morris, to Paris for the Louvre exhibition of British and Irish decorative work in 1914. The remains of the exhibition label was stitched to the reverse.

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Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141l
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This is one of a set of silk ‘Desert Doilies’ called ‘Flora’s Retinue’, designed by Walter Crane for the firm John Wilson and Sons, Bond street, London in 1894. Four of the designs (daisy, pink, lily and rose) were illustrated in the Arts and Crafts periodical The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art 1894: Vol 2, p.28

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141k
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

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Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141j
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141i
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

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Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141h 'Poppy'
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141g
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141f
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141e
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141d
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141a
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This is one of a set of silk ‘Desert Doilies’ called ‘Flora’s Retinue’, designed by Walter Crane for the firm John Wilson and Sons, Bond street, London in 1894. Four of the designs (daisy, pink, lily and rose) were illustated in the Arts and Crafts periodical The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art 1894: Vol 2, p.28

Material: silk and linen

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