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The Tapestry Weaver and the Glass Painter, Design for Stained Glass Morris & Co

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Dimensions: 50.2 x 90.2
Object Type: design
Material: pencil on paper
Catalogue number: BLA485a
Designer and maker: Morris & Co.

This design is one of three for stained glass windows depicting Morris & Co’s Merton Abbey works. A newspaper cutting from the local Merton papers, c.1938 shows W.H. Knight, the senior draftsman of Morris & Co., and Douglas Griffiths, one of the weaving apprentices holding up the cartoons, it is unknown whether the panels were ever executed, and Morris & Co. ceased in 1939.

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