'Cotton Printing at Merton Abbey Works', c1884 . Workers hand-printing cotton fabric with woodblocks 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. From "Modern Art Monographs".
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