William Morris, a founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore the prestige and methods of hand-made crafts, including textiles, in opposition to the 19th century tendency toward
Tulip and willow design for printed textiles (1873)
Daisy wall hanging by William and Jane Morris for Kelmscott Manor (1860)
Panel of floral embroidery, silk on silk (c. 1875) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Detail of silk on linen embroidery for a pillowcase or fireplace screen by William Morris (1878)
Kelmscott Manor
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Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England, close to the River Thames. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century
Kelmscott Manor
The painting Water Willow with Kelmscott Manor in the background
The Manor in News from Nowhere