Threadbear - Patchwork & Quilting

The Morris Workshop, 1872 - 1887

by Barbara Brackman for Moda Fabrics

William Morris had great influence on late-19th century design. He and his circle of poets, architects and painters sought a pre-Renaissance or Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic inspired by a simpler past. Inspirations included Celtic manuascript illustration, Arabic architecture, medieval tapestries and a reverence for nature.
In flat yet complicated patterns Morris hoped to interpret the flowers and birds in his garden with "force, purity, and elegance of the silhouette". Scornful of the industrial revolution and England's factories, he created a firm based on the old-fashioned workshop in which men and women hand crafted embroidery, tapestries and fabric in traditional vegetable dyes such as indigo and madder.$ per metre

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