Snakeshead

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Snakeshead

Designed by William Morris (English, 1834–1896)LinkedCulture matchlcp-0ff1f0101033

Date
Design 1876, made 1925–40
Medium
Cotton, plain weave; block printed
Culture
England
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
39170

This pattern was first produced in collaboration with dye chemist Thomas Wardle (English, 1831–1909) in 1877, after three months of experimentation. Wardle’s company continued to print selected Morris patterns, and when Thomas died in 1909, his son Bernard maintained this relationship. Unlike woven textiles, the printed textiles are marked with Morris & Co.’s logo on their selvages (outer edges), and the different styles of the typeface offer clues to when a fabric was actually made. The selvages of this example indicate that it was made some time between 1925 and 1940.

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Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken
Provenance
Cora Ginsburg, LLC, New York, by Apr. 13, 1972 [Incoming receipt RX8579, Apr. 13, 1972; copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.

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AAT300014063

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