'Bird', A length of woven fabric

DESIGNED BY WILLIAM MORRIS, 1878, MANUFACTURED BY MORRIS & CO.

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'Bird', A length of woven fabric
Designed by William Morris, 1878, manufactured by Morris & Co.
Woven woollen double cloth with a repeating pattern of pairs of birds amid foliage, pink, buff, blue and green on a deep blue ground
73½in. by 87in. (186.5cm. by 221cm.)

Lot Essay

The 'Bird' pattern textile was originally designed by William Morris in 1878 for the drawing room of his home at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, (See contemporary interior photograph accompanying Lot 8).

Cf: Linda Parry, William Morris Textiles, London, 1983, pp. 64 and 65

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