# Cray

- By: William Morris (Produced by Morris & Co., London (English, 1875–1940); Merton Abbey, London (English, 1881–1940))
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Charles F. Batchelder
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47661)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/8adeafb8-141d-6ad0-3356-5479dd0a6254/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.

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