Designed for Morris & Company by John Henry Dearle. Sometimes called Fox and Grape - not sure why. The creature is clearly a squirrel!
This would look good as a hanging, or a door curtain.
Triple wool cloth woven on a jacquard hand-loom at Merton Abbey, with bushy tailed tan squirrels running through blue and green grape vines,
Drop: 8ft 6 x 51 1/2 in; 2.6 x 1.30 m wide selvedge to selvedge.
The outer left hand edge has 6 in; 15 cm width of slight fading and some wear to the horizontal threads. There is also slight fading to the right hand edge. It was a curtain and where it hung there has been some fading. I have had this length cleaned by a specialist cleaner.
William Morris Textiles Linda Parry p 261, no 102.
Original design and working tracing: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. 2000.5.71
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