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Five pink flowers with foliated tendrils

last quarter 19th century
Not on view
William Morris’s Arts and Crafts’ movement prized needlework as a medium worked by hand by dedicated practitioners, in a direct riposte to the anonymous industrialization of other, increasingly mass-produced textiles. For more than a decade, the embroidery workshop of Morris & Co. was run by William Morris’s daughter, May. She supervised a team of professional embroiderers who specialized in darned needlework like this, producing a supply of elegantly stylized textile friezes for use as borders and valences.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Five pink flowers with foliated tendrils
  • Maker: Morris & Company
  • Date: last quarter 19th century
  • Culture: British
  • Medium: Linen embroidered with silk, in non-original frame
  • Dimensions: Framed: 12 5/8 in. × 74 1/2 in. × 1 in. (32.1 × 189.2 × 2.5 cm)
  • Classification: Textiles-Embroidered
  • Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
  • Object Number: 2021.7.4
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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