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The Merton Abbey Works was a textile printing factory in Merton, then part of Surrey but now in Greater London, England. Textile industries were active there from approximately 1690 until 1940. [ 1 ] From 1880 to 1940, the Works were the factory of the Arts and Crafts movement design firm Morris & Co.
The River Wandle flowing north towards Wandsworth drove watermills and provided water for a number of industrial processes in Merton. Merton Abbey Mills were established by Huguenot silk throwers in the early eighteenth century; there were already textile works nearby from 1667, [1] including those that became the Merton Abbey Works, site of ...
Liberty Print Works were eventually refurbished and converted into the Merton Abbey Mills craft village. In recent years, the remainder of the brownfield site to the east of Merton Abbey Mills has been developed into a residential complex which includes luxury apartments, a hotel, a gymnasium and several restaurants.
The Pond at Merton Abbey by Lexden Lewis Pocock is an idyllic representation of the works in the time of Morris. In summer 1881, Morris took out a lease on the seven-acre former silk weaving factory, the Merton Abbey Works , next to the River Wandle on the High Street at Merton , Southwest London (not to be confused with the adjacent Merton ...
Continuing the long association of Merton with textile printing, the Arts and Crafts designer William Morris opened Merton Abbey Works in 1881. Close by, the firm of Edmund Littler at Merton Abbey Mills was known for its high-quality printing and was by the 1890s sending its entire production to Liberty & Co. in Regent Street. Liberty & Co ...
Dearle managed the company's textile works at Merton Abbey until his own death in 1932. The firm was finally dissolved in 1940, but his designs continue to be produced and marketed by other textile firms, including Sanderson and Sons, part of the Walker Greenbank wallpaper and fabrics business, which now owns the.
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From 1890, Dearle was head designer for the firm, handling interior design commissions and supervising the tapestry, weaving, and fabric-printing departments at Merton Abbey [6] He was appointed Art Director of Morris & Co. following Morris's death in 1896. Dearle managed the company's textile works at Merton Abbey until his death in 1932. [3]