William Morris prints and patterns are know for their naturalistic style and although they are regarded as classics now, back in the mid 1860's they were seen as quite radical. When it comes to ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti could always cheer himself up by belittling William ... ‘Morris had gone soft in the head.’ In our consumerist culture, he lives mainly in the mass reproduction of his designs ...

Hadrian Garrard, the curator of Morris Mania – an innovative exhibition now showing at the William Morris Gallery ... covered in a plasticised Morris pattern. It reminded me of the time when ...

Hadrian Garrard, the curator of Morris ... at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, east London – tells the story of being in King’s Cross Station and spotting someone wheeling a shopping trolley ...

The designer, artist, author and all-round polymath William Morris ... that he would have approved of "Morris-print Dr. Martens" or even AI-generated patterns that ape his own.

You’ve seen the patterns: branches of colorful flowers and fruits unfolding across solid backgrounds. Nearly 130 years after his death, the British artist William Morris’ designs are ...

Poet, social reformer, writer, publisher, and above all artist and designer. There is little William Morris couldn’t or didn’t do, so much so that, in 1896, as he lay dying at the age of 62, a doctor ...

Our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, visits Morris Mania: How Britain’s greatest designer went viral and talks to the William Morris Gallery’s director Hadrian Garrard.

The Victorian arts and craftsman William Morris ... green, but at present the best alternative. Instead of clipped parterres I could plan flat beds, seen from above, with a carpet pattern ...

In 1858, William Morris ... Many of the motifs we think of as pattern-book Arts and Crafts movement — of which Morris would become a leading proponent — such as exposed timber and brickwork ...

Kelmscott Press may have only operated for seven years at the end of the 19th century, but its legacy as a high-water mark in British printing endures. It was a late career passion project from ...

For her - as for Morris - it is "lovely still", and holds "the gathered crumbs of happiness of the confused and turbulent past". Come the revolution By that time, Morris’s life had taken a ...