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WILLIAM MORRIS - BRITISH ART MEETS CRAFT

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WILLIAM MORRIS - BRITISH ART MEETS CRAFT

Collaboration at its finest – William Morris London is proud to be working in partnership with The William Morris Gallery, the world-renowned art organization that houses and preserves one of the best collections in the world of the work of this great artist.

William Morris (1834-1896) is a world famous designer, poet, political activist and craftsman known for designing elegant interiors and exquisite textiles that remain among the best loved and most popular designs around the world.

Today, this new line of eyewear takes the best of those iconic prints and fabrics and applies them to a stunning range of wearable eyewear.

LODDEN (1884)

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Lodden was designed by William Morris and block printed onto cotton fabrics. Lodden has a very large repeating pattern and shows intricate scrolling flowers with foliage in gold, greens and silver grey.

    STRAWBERRY THIEF (1883)

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    One of William Morris’s most expensive, technically challenging, yet commercially successful designs; Strawberry Thief was inspired by the thrushes that decimated the fruit in his garden at Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire.

      RIVERWIND (1881-83)

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      This design, based on Morris’s design Windrush, a tributary of the River Thames, is one of Morris’s last designs for a printed textile. It was inspired by a seventeenth-century velvet in the South Kensington Museum.



        BROTHER RABBIT (1882)

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        Morris conceived his passion for medieval textiles and decoration during his childhood. Designed specifically to utilize the indigo discharge method of printing, the authentic blue of this plant dye only emerges after three days, when it is lifted from the vat.

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