William Morris Society of Canada

WMSC Members, if you are interested in the UK Journal, a special extended single edition for 2021 to celebrate the Kelmscott Press will be available later this year! Follow the link to secure your copy! http://www.wmsc.ca//2021-journal-of-william-morris-studies... Not a member? Sign up on our website! www.wmsc.ca/p/membership.html

This is a chair cover embroidered by my mother, Sue Bakker, during the first full lockdown in Scotland. She adapted the design from a rose printed textile by W...illiam Morris of 1883. She added a very small coronavirus motif between her initials and the date! What would William Morris have created during lockdown?

Happy Holidays!

Dress historian Cathy Hay makes an 1895 walking skirt with Morris & Co fabric. The 'Marigold' pattern is here in all it's splendour in a bright, spring green. Do not be alarmed by the term 'Victorian' as this video showcases two clear principles: "Have nothing in your [wardrobe] that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful" and a "joy in labour", for why else would you sew and embellish by hand?

Thought you might appreciate our festive mantle made with some candles and some clippings foraged from my friend’s hedge! Wallpaper is the gorgeous William Morris Blackthorn If you’re interested, there are more festive shots on our Instagram page @crayvilla

David Parr worked at times with William Morris.

spiralling_oxford The stunning and very unusual organ pipes painted by Morris and Co. in the Harris Manchester College chapel ------------ Harris Manchester C...ollege: The organ pipes were painted by Morris and Co., but the College tradition that William Morris himself painted them in situ is unfortunately false, since he died a year before they were commissioned. http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/discov/our-chapel/about-the-chapel/ See more

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Rob Higgins is the author of several books on William De Morgan and a specialist in Victorian Arts and Crafts Tiles. In this online talk, Rob kindly shares his personal collection of De Morgan tiles with us. He will speak about his current research on De Morgan's Dutch blanks and share some of his rare and unique tiles with us.

SEPTEMBER by William Morris (from THE EARTHLY PARADISE) O COME at last, to whom the spring-tide's hope Looked for through blossoms, what hast thou for me? ... Green grows the grass upon the dewy slope Beneath thy gold-hung, grey-leaved apple-tree Moveless, e’en as the autumn fain would be That shades its sad eyes from the rising sun And weeps at eve because the day is done. What vision wilt thou give me, autumn morn, To make thy pensive sweetness more complete? What tale, ne’er to be told, of folk unborn? What images of grey-clad damsels sweet Shall cross thy sward with dainty noiseless feet? What nameless shamefast longings made alive Soft-eyed September will thy sad heart give? Look long, O longing eyes, and look in vain! Strain idly, aching heart, and yet be wise, And hope no more for things to come again That thou beheldest once with careless eyes! Like a new-wakened man thou art, who tries To dream again the dream that made him glad When in his arms his loving love he had. Labours of the Months. c.1862 Burne-Jones, Morris, Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Webb hand-painted on tin-glazed earthenware tiles William Morris Gallery

Works in Progress is an exhibition of design drawings taken from the Gallery’s collection. Featuring objects that are not usually on displaysome of which have ...never been seen by the public beforethe exhibition focuses on the process of design from work on paper to finished object. Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm. Please book your visit in advance to guarantee entry and save time. And please wear a face covering unless you have an exemption. Find out more and book your slot: https://buff.ly/2QyJpE8

Love to see work inspired by Morris!

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make William Morris (1834- 1896). Textile Artist, poet, translator and social activist ~ Associated with the British arts and crafts movement.

Did you know Beatrix Potter was a huge Morris fan? Her bedroom at Hill Top was decorated in Daisy wallpaper.

How (antique) wallpaper was made... From the British-Pathe archives. Text übernommen

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/design-ideas-arts-crafts

stainedglass Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Window designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and made by Morris & Co. 1889.

WMSC Members, check your emails! A digital version of the WMS-UK journal is in your inbox to enjoy! Some highlights include: May Morris and artist Mary Annie Sloane's 1913 trip to Mallorca... William Morris in China The medieval-inspired garden at Red House Charles Francis Annsley Voysey inspired by William Morris