2-713-578 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works', late 19th century. Female weaver at a loom at Merton Abbey Mills in south London. The Abbey buildings were renovated and adapted for textile printing at the beginning of the 19th century, and acquired by the artist and textile designer William Morris (1834-1896) in 1881. Morris had started to weave his first carpets at Kelmscott House, his home in Hammersmith. From "Modern Art Monographs".