Cushion cover (Botanical)
c. 1900 · Mercerized-cotton embroidery on cotton · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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About this work
- Artist
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Year
- c. 1900
- Medium
- Mercerized-cotton embroidery on cotton
- Original size
- 70 × 70 cm
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Movement
- Arts and Crafts
Four rose-red, star-like flowers meet at the centre among yellow-green leaves, inside a frame of sea-green acanthus and looping pink ribbons, all stitched on a pale natural ground with a fringed edge. The design is by William Morris; this cushion cover, made around 1900, was embroidered by Annie May Hegeman and sold through Morris's firm, which offered such pieces as kits, a popular and inexpensive way to acquire a Morris design. It is worked in mercerized cotton, a thread treated to give it a silk-like lustre, on a cotton ground. The Cooper Hewitt records it as a gift from Hegeman herself in 1936, and it was shown in the museum's exhibition Botanical Expressions. It measures 70 centimetres square.
This print shows the whole sample, uncropped, from a high-resolution museum scan of the original. The design is in the public domain.
Where it works
Rose-red flowers and sea-green acanthus on a pale natural ground are soft and calm for a bedroom, guest room or neutral living room. Pair it with Rose Wreath at 24×36 in natural wood.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Arts and Crafts pattern
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1900)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- decorative, classic
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The cream ground is its own mat: a slim black or natural wood frame, no extra mat.
Pairing. Hangs alone or as a matched pair; three or more prints are 10% off.
