Corncockle
Furnishing Fabric
1883 (made)
1883 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Furnishing fabric of cotton block printed in five colours. It has a spotted ground, a sub-pattern of fine coiling leafy tendrils bearing geometricised florets, and a main repeat of alternate horizontal rows of stylised corn cockles or cornflowers and dahlias or sunflowers. These are within a framework of heavy foliage with buds, curving to the right above the dahlias and to the left above the corn cockles. In dark green, mid green, yellow ochre, pale blue and mid pink.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Corncockle |
| Materials and techniques | Blcok printed cotton |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric of printed cotton 'Corncockle', designed by William Morris for Morris & Co., probably printed at Merton Abbey, 1883. |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of cotton block printed in five colours. It has a spotted ground, a sub-pattern of fine coiling leafy tendrils bearing geometricised florets, and a main repeat of alternate horizontal rows of stylised corn cockles or cornflowers and dahlias or sunflowers. These are within a framework of heavy foliage with buds, curving to the right above the dahlias and to the left above the corn cockles. In dark green, mid green, yellow ochre, pale blue and mid pink. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lettice Rathbone |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.168-1973 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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