Tapestry Panel
ca. 1890 (made)
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Panel of woven tapestry with a high warp, woven in wools on a cotton warp. The horizontal panel shows a design of one curving and twisting acanthus leaf in shades of blue and grey-green on a dark blue indigo ground. The background is shaded in stripes of lighter blue. Lower fringe of warp threads and the upper border has been cut close to the weaving.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tapestry woven wool on a cotton warp |
| Brief description | Panel of woven tapestry, possibly designed by William Morris or John Henry Dearle, woven at Merton Abbey Works, England, ca.1890 |
| Physical description | Panel of woven tapestry with a high warp, woven in wools on a cotton warp. The horizontal panel shows a design of one curving and twisting acanthus leaf in shades of blue and grey-green on a dark blue indigo ground. The background is shaded in stripes of lighter blue. Lower fringe of warp threads and the upper border has been cut close to the weaving. |
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| Object history | Registered File number 1986/834. Probably an apprentice piece worked at the Merton Abbey Works of Morris & Co. Apprentices were set small trials initially progressing to finished panels of simple design. They would then help in the weaving of full-scale tapestries. This panel is similar in style and the use of indigo dyed wools to the tapestries at Merton Abbey, and may have been taken from a tapestry border design. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Parry, Linda (ed.), William Morris London : Philip Wilson, 1996
M.21 |
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| Accession number | T.111-1986 |
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| Record created | January 13, 2004 |
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