Cray
William Morris (Produced by Morris & Co., London (English, 1875–1940); Merton Abbey, London (English, 1881–1940))
Design 1884, made 1884–1917
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave, block printed
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 279.7 × 97.8 cm (110 1/8 × 38 1/2 in.); Repeat: 94.5 × 45 cm (37 1/4 × 17 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Cray was the most complex of the large-scale designs named for rivers in that it required 34 printing blocks—more than any other. The two examples of Cray in the collection [1974.419a and 2018.827] appear to have been made with different sets of printing blocks, as the size of the pattern is slightly different in length and width.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
