Cray
William Morris
1884
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave, block printed
- Dimensions
- 280.8 × 97.8 cm (110 5/8 × 38 1/2 in.); Repeat: 94.5 × 45 cm (37 1/4 × 17 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- weaving - printed
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
block printing19th centurycotton (textile)natural dyebotanicalfloralflowersbritishweaving - printedArts and Crafts MovementTextileBritish Arts and Crafts Movementplain weaving
About
Cray was the most complex of the large-scale designs named for rivers in that it required 34 printing blocks—more than any other.
