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<em>Peony</em> was probably designed for Morris & Co. by Kate Faulkner, the sister of William Morris’s early business partner Charles Faulkner. The small, almost square repeat of this pattern is more characteristic of Kate than of Morris, who favored larger patterns. She also designed embroidery, wallpaper, painted tiles and pottery, and plaster decoration for the firm. Morris had a progressive attitude toward women as co-laborers, and promoted the work of designers such as Kate, whose patterns challenged the monotony of much of the needlework and domestic crafts that then occupied middle-class women.
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117135
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Peony
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object
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117135
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object
title
Peony
description
<em>Peony</em> was probably designed for Morris & Co. by Kate Faulkner, the sister of William Morris’s early business partner Charles Faulkner. The small, almost square repeat of this pattern is more characteristic of Kate than of Morris, who favored larger patterns. She also designed embroidery, wallpaper, painted tiles and pottery, and plaster decoration for the firm. Morris had a progressive attitude toward women as co-laborers, and promoted the work of designers such as Kate, whose patterns challenged the monotony of much of the needlework and domestic crafts that then occupied middle-class women.
date
1920
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q60781208
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56740
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 86 x 99.4 cm (33 7/8 x 39 1/8 in.)
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England, 20th century
accession
1937.7
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plain weave cotton, printed
tombstone
Peony, 1920. Kate Faulkner (British, 1841–1898). Plain weave cotton, printed; overall: 86 x 99.4 cm (33 7/8 x 39 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry Chisholm, 1937.700
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Parry, Linda. William Morris Textiles. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
page_number
p. 151, no. 26
citation
Korkow, Cory. "Textiles." IN <em>William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise.</em> Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017.
page_number
Reproduced and mentioned: p. 12, fig. 6.
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Gift of Mrs. Henry Chisholm
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2026-05-29 06:05:11.509000
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117135
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Textiles
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Textiles
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plain weave cotton, printed
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female
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