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Hammersmith Carpet
Public Domain

William Morris and Morris & Company

Hammersmith Carpet

1879

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Hammersmith Carpet

1879

Physical Qualities Wool pile, cotton warp, wool binding weft, 101 1/2 x 57 in. (257.8 x 144.8 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Jean and Sidney Silber, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number 2010.59
Rectangular hand-knotted area rug with 36" field of interlocking scrolls of foliage creating an ogee bracketed background filled with a one-directional floral pattern, including irises, five-petal blooms, and rose buds. The ground color of the field is dark indigo blue. The overlapping ogee framework and floral designs are cream, blue, red, gold, terra cotta, sage green, pale gold, burgundy, olive green, forest green, peach, and pale aqua or lt. blue, and pink. The field is surrounded by four borders, including a 1-1/8" wide "barber-shop" striped border of dark grey alternating with cream colored diagonal sections, a 7" wide floral patterned border with red ground, light-blue design with cream irises, a third border 1-1/8" wide of light-blue or cream ground with red dots, and a narrow 1-1/4" wide outer border of solid dark blue pile. The rug is composed of cotton twine warps with a pile comprised of hand-knotted (Giordes or Turkish knots) tied over two warps (64 knots per square inch) and held in place by wool binding wefts. The short ends are finished with woven sections of cotton twine and fringe.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2010; Jean and Sidney Silber, Lutherville, MD, by purchase, 1987; David Black Oriental Carpets, London
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.

Anita Jones, "Curator's Choice: Recent Additions to the Textiles Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, April 27 - November 27, 2011.
Haslam Malcom, Arts & Crafts Carpets, London: David Black, 1991, pp. 71-72, illus. p. 72.

Designer

William Morris

English, 1834-1896
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Manufacturer

Morris & Company

1875-1940; working at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 1877-1881, or Merton Abbey, 1881-1940
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