I may give the statement in the words of the late William Bell ... blue-shirted, seacaptain-looking man, they beheld “ the idle dreamer of an empty day.” “ What is William Morris like ...

While the noted Arts and Crafts designer’s patterns have never gone out of production, they are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. A leading figure of the British Arts and Crafts movement ...

Few things are more quintessentially British than a William Morris print. The flora and fauna ... sage, ochre, slate blue — turns the volume down on the pattern and feels autumnal.

What could be more quintessentially English than William Morris ... blooms in Morris’s machine-woven carpet “Tulip and Lily” (1875) mirror the alternating red and blue tulip heads of ...

Past visitors to Kelmscott Manor, the silvery stone house in an Oxfordshire village which the English designer and political firebrand William ... Morris design but the much more colourful Blue ...

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British textile designer William Morris has been honoured with a Google doodle, on what would have been his 182nd birthday. Morris was born in Walthamstow, then in Essex, on March 24, 1834.

Journalist Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and values in the life of Victorian designer, poet, and craftsman William Morris. Show more Journalist Navid Akhtar examines the ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1858, William Morris, a 24-year-old architectural draughtsman with some family money, bought an acre of land ...