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St Hilary silk damask (c.1912-14)

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Date: c.1912-14
Dimensions: 61.5 x 71.2
Object Type: textile
Material: silk damask
Technique: hand-loom jacquard woven
Catalogue number: F362
Designer: Dearle, John Henry (1859 - 1932)
Manufacturer: Morris & Co.
Credit notes: Purchased with the aid of a grant from the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1994

Design adapted by John Henrey Dearle from William Morris’s St James’s wallpaper pattern, designed in 1880 as part of a decorative scheme for St James Palace. Apart from small samples in a pattern book at the V&A Museum, this is the only known example of the silk damask.

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