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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
May 15, 2024 · William Morris was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics, stained glass, wallpaper, and other decorative arts generated the Arts and Crafts movement in England and revolutionized Victorian taste.
William Morris was a revolutionary force in Victorian Britain: his work as an artist, designer, craftsman, writer and socialist dramatically changed the fashions and ideologies of the era.
William Morris is best known as the 19th century's most celebrated designer, but he was also a driven polymath who spent much of his life fighting the consensus. A key figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement, Morris championed a principle of handmade production that didn't chime with the Victorian era's focus on industrial 'progress'.
William Morris is often seen as the grandfather of the international Arts and Crafts Movement. In an era of increasing industrialism and urbanization, he embraced an idealized vision of the artisanship and cottage industries of the Middle Ages.
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
William Morris (1834-1896) was a revolutionary designer, craftsman, writer, social activist, and conservationist, who introduced a new and instantly recognisable visual aesthetic into British interiors.
Born in Walthamstow in March 1834, William Morris founded the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. Discover how he was inspired by nature and went on to design some of the most recognisable textile patterns of the 19th century.
Explore the internationally-renowned collection devoted to designer, craftsman and radical socialist William Morris. The Gallery holds the largest collection in the world of Morris’s works, as well a collection of works by his contemporaries, including the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Search the collection. Advanced Search.
William Morris nurtured a romantic enthusiasm for historical design from childhood. This was fully ignited while he was at Oxford, when a tour of the Gothic cathedrals of northern France led him to realise that he wanted a 'life of art' not a career in the Church.
