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Honeysuckle

Furnishing Fabric
1876 (made)
Artist/Maker
Morris & Co. (made for)
Sir Thomas and Arthur Wardle Ltd. (maker)
Morris, William (designer)
Place of origin
Leek (made)

Furnishing fabric of block-printed silk. With a complex pattern showing a large-scale turn-over repeat. In yellow, orange, pink, green and blue.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Interiors
SCRAN
Object type
Furnishing fabric
TitleHoneysuckle (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Block-printed silk
Silk (Textile)
Dye
Block-Printing
Brief description
Furnishing fabric 'Honeysuckle' of block-printed silk, designed by William Morris, made for Morris & Co. by Thomas Wardle, Leek, 1876
Physical description
Furnishing fabric of block-printed silk. With a complex pattern showing a large-scale turn-over repeat. In yellow, orange, pink, green and blue.
Dimensions
  • Height: 49.5cm
  • Width: 99cm
  • Width: 39in
  • Height: 19.5in
Style
Arts and Crafts
Object history
This experimental silk was acquired by the South Kensington Museum directly from the 1878 Paris Exposition, where it was exhibited by Wardle in the Indian section under his name.
Production
AP 51 - 1879 (4); Registered 11 October 1876.
Subject depicted
Honeysuckle
Bibliographic references
  • Parry, Linda, ed. William Morris. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1996. 384 p., ill. ISBN 0856674419
  • Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
CIRC.491-1965

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Record createdJanuary 20, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O89755/honeysuckle-furnishing-fabric-morris-william/
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