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William Morris Red Brother Rabbit 100% Cotton Floral Fabric By The Half Metre

William Morris Red Brother Rabbit 100% Cotton Floral Fabric By The Half Metre

From: £12.25 - In Stock

Now digitally printed, our Brother Rabbit Red is of the utmost quality. The digital print not only ensures every cm of the design is crisp and perfectly printed, but it allows the print to show absolutely every detail. All William Morris designs are so special and have so many details within them that he hand designed so we're so pleased to be able to print them now digitally to showcase every single design to their utmost quality. Still printed in the UK of course, providing you with the highest quality cotton.

This Licensed William Morris Design was first produced in May 1882. It is also known sometimes as Brer Rabbit and was inspired and named after a character in Uncle Remus, His song and Sayings by J.C.Harris (1881) which William Morris would read to his daughters Jenny and May. First produced at Merton Abbey, it was originally printed using the Indigo Dye technique. Philip Webb drew the birds and rabbits within the design.

Just like all our designs, Brother Rabbit 100% cotton is printed in the United Kingdom.

As with all natural fibres, cotton will contract so slight shrinkage should be allowed for.

The fabric is machine washable at 30 degrees.

The cotton fabric is 152 cm wide including a 2.5cm each side salve edge. The pattern repeat is 18cm. If you purchase more than half a metre the fabric within the same order, it will be sent as one continuous piece.

We use high quality cotton fabric which is digitally printed in the United Kingdom. Our printer is a long-established British printer. If you would like a closer look at any of our fabrics, you can get in touch and we’ll be happy to send you a free sample (United Kingdom only.) Every single one of our William Morris designs are licensed Morris designs. We print and manufacture all of our William Morris designs to our own specifications in terms of both size and colour way to best suit our products.  We can keep our fabric cheaper than competitors by printing within the UK and reducing transport costs, we are exclusively an online retailer and therefore we don’t need to pay for flashy showrooms! When you purchase from Laura’s Beau, you are purchasing your product direct from the manufacturer and so we can dictate our prices and keep them competitive.  So - buy British and buy with confidence that you’re purchasing a licensed William Morris design.

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