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Small Rose

Panel
ca. 1890 (designed), ca. 1900 (sold)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panel
Small Rose embroidery kit (started)
Coloured silks and ink on cotton
Worked in darning stitch, stem stitch, long and short stitch and satin stitch

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSmall Rose (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Cotton panel embroidered in silks, ink design
Brief description
Panel, Small Rose embroidery kit (started) with embroidered cotton in silks, designed by May Morris for Morris & Co., England, ca. 1890.
Physical description
Panel
Small Rose embroidery kit (started)
Coloured silks and ink on cotton
Worked in darning stitch, stem stitch, long and short stitch and satin stitch
Dimensions
  • Width: 15in
  • Length: 19.5in
Credit line
Given by Miss Vere Roberts
Subject depicted
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
Accession number
CIRC.302-1960

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2004
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