Rose Wreath (cushion cover)
Late 19th century · Cotton and mercerized-cotton embroidery on cotton · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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About this work
- Artist
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Year
- Late 19th century
- Medium
- Cotton and mercerized-cotton embroidery on cotton
- Original size
- 55 × 55 cm
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Movement
- Arts and Crafts
A small rose tree with five peach flowers and yellow-green leaves grows from a pink trunk inside a blue roundel, framed by a green lattice and large pale oak-like leaves at the corners, the whole edged with a looped fringe. Rose Wreath was designed by William Morris; this late nineteenth-century cushion cover in the Cooper Hewitt was embroidered by Annie May Hegeman in cotton and mercerized cotton, using darning, stem and couching stitches with laid work. Morris's firm sold embroidery kits, a popular and inexpensive way of owning a Morris design while doing the stitching oneself; from 1885 its embroidery department was run by his daughter May. The cover measures 55 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
A peach-flowered rose tree in a blue roundel with green borders suits a bedroom, nursery or cottage sitting room. Pair it with Cushion Cover (Botanical) at 16×24 in natural wood.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Arts and Crafts pattern
- Era
- 19th century
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- blush pink
- Mood
- decorative, classic
- Rooms
- bedroom, nursery
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. 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.
