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A work made of cotton, plain weave, block printed.

Cray

Design 1884, made 1884–1917

Designed by William Morris (English, 1834–1896) Produced by Morris & Co., London (English, 1875–1940) Merton Abbey, London (English, 1881–1940)

England

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.

Cotton, plain weave, block printed

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