Artist: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
Date: 1917
Size: 64 x 96 cm
Museum: William Morris Gallery (Walthamstow, United Kingdom)
Technique: Cotton
In the 1870s when William Morris started designing printed textiles, he was frequently in Leek, a small industrial town in Staffordshire and a key location for silk dyeing. Here Morris had persuaded Thomas Wardle, the brother-in-law of Morris & Co.’s showroom manager George Wardle, to assist him in large-scale dyeing experiments. Although Wardle’s father and grandfather used natural dyes, by Wardle’s time modern chemical dyes had replaced these more ancient techniques. Morris had already been experimenting with vegetable dyes in the basement of his London home in Queen’s Square. At Leek he was able to scale-up these experiments and attempt to perfect more difficult dyes, such as indigo. During this period his hands were
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