Cray
William Morris
1884
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave, block printed
- 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.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
block printing19th centurycotton (textile)natural dyefloralflowersbritishweaving - printedArts and Crafts Movement20th CenturyTextileBritish Arts and Crafts Movementprinted textileplain 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. 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.
