Bird and Anemone printed cotton

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Date: design registered 17 June 1882
Dimensions: 208.2 x 91.4
Object Type: textile
Material: cotton
Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed
Catalogue number: F151c
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Hitch, 1954

Bird and Anemone was designed by William Morris in 1881 and the design registered on 17th June 1882. The monochrome pattern is one of only three designs issued by Morris as both a wallpaper and a printed cotton. Although they were produced at approximately the same time, the narrow upright rectangular repeat suggests it was however probably first intended as a textile design. The pattern was one of the first textiles to be printed at Morris’s factory Merton Abbey, and he produced it in this colourway using the indigo-discharge method and a red colourway.

Details

Dimensions: 217.8 x 83.8
Object Type: textile
Material: cotton
Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed
Catalogue number: F151b
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Hitch, 1954

Details

Date: design registered 17 June 1882
Dimensions: 101.6 x 91.4
Object Type: textile
Material: cotton
Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed
Catalogue number: F151a
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Hitch, 1954

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Date: designed before June 1881, printed before 1910
Dimensions: 52 x 95.2
Object Type: textile
Material: cotton
Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed
Catalogue number: F150
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Mrs Hitch, 1954

It is not known precisely when William Morris designed Rose and Thistle, however the original design in the Victoria and Albert Museum is marked ’26 Queens Square’, so it must have been designed before Morris & Co. moved to Merton Abbey in June 1881. This example was formerly in the collection of Lucy Faulkner Orrinsmith (1839-1910), an artist friend of William Morris and who also worked for his firm.

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.

Technique: indigo discharge and block-printed

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