Sunday, October 4, 2009

Artist: William Morris

Artist: William Morris
Title: Tulip and Willow
Date: 1873
Movement: Arts and Crafts




William Morris (24 March 1834-2 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. One of Morris works of art is "Tulip and Willow, 1873." It was indigo-discharge wood-block printed fabric. Morris was prducing repeating patterns for wallpaper as early as 1862, and some six years later he designed his first pattern specifically for fabric printing. Morris's patterns for woven textiles included intricate double-woven furnishing fabrics in which two sets of warps and wefts are interlinked to create complex gradations of colour and texture.

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