Flora’s Retinue ‘Lily’

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 17.8 x 17.8 (with fringe)
Object Type: textile
Material: silk and linen
Technique: machine-woven
Catalogue number: F141e
Designer: Crane, Walter, 1845, 1915
Manufacturer: John Wilson and Sons
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This is one of a set of silk ‘Desert Doilies’ called ‘Flora’s Retinue’, designed by Walter Crane for the firm John Wilson and Sons, Bond street, London in 1894. Four of the designs (daisy, pink, lily and rose) were illustrated in the Arts and Crafts periodical The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art 1894: Vol 2, p.28