Furnishing Fabric
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
1895–1905
- Medium
- Cotton, cotton chenille, and wild silk, plain weave double cloth with three-color complementary main warps
- Dimensions
- 246.8 × 113.6 cm (97 1/8 × 44 3/4 in.); Repeat: 36.1 × 31.3 cm (14 1/4 × 12 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
cotton (textile)cotton chenillefurnishing textilefloraldouble clothArt Nouveauflowersfloral motifsbritishsilk (textile)Arts and Crafts Movement20th CenturyTextilefoliagewild silkweavingtulipsplain weaving
About
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey is known for his textile designs that incorporate attenuated floral and plant forms. Alexander Morton & Co. produced woven textiles for a number of British Arts and Crafts artists. The firm’s work was technically inventive, using subtle shifts in texture to heighten a pattern’s effect, which contributes to the success of this design.
