Tulip and Lily Kidderminster machine Woven Wool Carpet

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Date: designed c.1867-7, manufactured c.1904
Dimensions: 182.9 x 259.1
Object Type: textile
Material: wool on cotton warp
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: N3
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Heckmondwike Manufacturing Co. Yorkshire
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Gift of Dr & Mrs Charles Newman, 1954

Tulip and Lily was designed by William Morris around 1867-7. He registered the design a year or so later on 27th December 1878, after a number of firms started copying the design. The flat woven flooring is 3-ply wool and was woven in Yorkshire for Morris & Co. by Heckmondwike Manufacturing Co. The carpet as available in various colourways, predominantly green. The carpet was 36 inches wide (91.5cm) and also available for stair caperpets, this version has a border and was acquired from Morris & Co. in 1904.

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Date: designed c.1875, manufactured c.1920s
Dimensions: 85.1 x 22.6
Object Type: textile
Material: woven wool
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: N13b
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Retailer: Morris & Co. Art-Workers Ltd., 17 George Street, Hanover Square, London
Manufacturer: Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Ltd
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1964

‘Lily’ was William Morris’s first design for a wool pile carpet. It was machine woven on a jaquard loom for Morris & Co. by Yates & Co. in Wilton, and from 1905 its successor, Wilton Royal Carpet Company. The repeating pattern is formed of stylized lily plants intertwined with scrolling flowers on a dark blue background. Although the design wasn’t registered with the Patent Office it was in production in 1877, along with a number of other designs, when Morris advised the Countess of Tullamore in Ireland on the decoration of her house. Wilton carpets were the most popular type of machine woven carpets made by Morris & Co., and of the 24 different designs available ‘Lily’ was a best seller.

This fragment, along with four others were removed from a larger piece (see N13) to make it a regular size when it was first acquired by the Gallery in 1964.

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Date: c. 1900
Dimensions: 274.3 x 213.4
Object Type: textile
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: N5
Designer: Dearle, John Henry (1859 - 1932)
Retailer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Presented by Miss M.L. Wooldridge, 1955

One of a number of patterned carpets designed by John Henry Dearle around 1900 for Morris & Co. to be made by machine; the pattern emulated the effect of the more expensive hand-knotted Hammersmith carpets. Another example is in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries, Kelmscott Manor. The carpet was given to the Gallery by Martha Wooldridge, (1863-1958) a classical dancer who had been left it by the radical preacher Stewart Headlam, whom she lived with in an Arts & Crafts House called ‘Wavertree’ in St Margarets, Twickenham (Headlam is perhaps most famous for putting up half of Oscar Wilde’s bail when he was tried for ‘gross indecency’ in 1885).

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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

Technique: machine-woven

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