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Corncockle

Furnishing Fabric
1883 (made)
Artist/Maker
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

Categories
Object type
TitleCorncockle
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.
Dimensions
  • Length: 59.5in
  • Width: 35in
  • Hem width: 2in
  • Length: 151cm
  • Width: 88.9cm
  • Hem width: 5.1cm
  • Weight: 0.36kg
Credit line
Given by Lettice Rathbone
Collection
Accession number
T.168-1973

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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