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18th April 2018
A few weeks ago, we visited the beautiful city of Rome for an early Spring break. We spent a lot of the time just wandering the streets and enjoying the sights, Rome is one of those cities that you walk round the corner and see an incredible ancient ruin!
With four days to explore the city, there’s so much to see. There was a lot to get see, on day one we walked around the Pantheon and got a coffee in the piazza, watching the world go by, we grabbed a pizza and then visited the Trevi Fountain to toss a coin over our right shoulder in a wish to come back. The Romans used to toss a coin into the water too, they hoped for a safe journey or a safe journey home after their trip. It’s got to be the most stunning fountain in the world and we visited it both in the daytime and the nighttime so we could see it in every scenario! We were so lucky with the bright blue skies to see the white marble glinting back at us, though it was one of 1,352 fountains in 4th century Rome, it really is something else and stands out on it’s own.
The fountain was built after the construction of the Aqua Virgo Aqueduct in 19 BC which provided water to both the Roman baths and the fountains of central Rome. The Aqua Virgo (or Virgin Waters) is named in honour of a young Roman girl, who led thirsty soldiers to the source of the spring to drink.
The next day, we were up bright and early to have breakfast on the roof of our hotel – Hotel Forum, where we could look out onto the Forum, see peaks of the Colosseum and the Altare della Patria. We took a walk down to the Colosseum and a walk round showed the beautiful architecture. It’s incredible to remember how they built the amazing Colosseum without modern tools! It’s estimated that the Colosseum could hold between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators and it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles, animal hunts, executions etc. In summary, it’s a building that was used for entertainment in the early medieval era. Later, it was reused for purposes that included houses, workshops, a fortress etc. It was partially ruined because of damaged that was caused to it in terms of both earthquakes and stone-robbers, but the Colosseum remains an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome.
We then walked down to the Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth) and popped our hands in to make sure we’re truthful! Followed by… you guessed it… pizza.
The next day, after another fabulous breakfast, we pottered up to St Peter’s Square and the Vatican. After a day of exploring and walking along the river, we stumbled across the stunning view of the sun setting over St Peter’s Basilica – how lucky were we to see this!
Bright and early, we were up for another adventure and explored the Spanish Steps and surrounding areas. We then went to the Altare della Patria and we discovered a lift up to the top that took us to the most stunning views of Rome; on one side we could see the Colosseum, Forum and beyond to the mountains and on the other side we could see the Pantheon, Basilicas for miles and countless other sights – well worth the visit for the view!
We’d walked past this on the way home every night as our hotel was so near so I’m so glad we decided to go inside!
We had an amazing time and took a tote bag with us of course! Going around a city for a whole day, there’s so much you’ll need with you; from a hat and gloves when it gets a little more cold outside later on in the day to some snacks – plus it’s great to pop anything you’ve bought that day into!
We take a different bag every holiday as we’ve got so many beautiful William Morris designs in all different sizes; which one is your favourite?
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Happy first day of Spring 🌷what’s your favourite thing about spring? 🌱 Ours is of course all the stunning flowers blooming all around us 🪴 To get 15% off our website to bring some florals indoors, use code; SPRING at checkout on our website 🤍
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Our fat quarters are ideal for quilting or patchwork projects, in all our licensed William Morris designs we also sell them in bundles 🌿 Our website has 15% off everything at the moment with code; SPRING 🌷
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A bit of a different one today, and we’re very amateur so don’t zoom in on our planting too much, but isn’t spring lovely tidying up the greenhouse ready to plant in? 🌱 Next up is getting some tomato plants and might even take on a dahlia or two! 🤍 If you’re a gardener and know how to keep this grape vine alive, do let us know how 😂
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Celebrating International Women’s Day today 🤍 As a female founded and run business, it’s always important for us to look at the women throughout history that have been empowered and made a difference. Few have made such a difference than May Morris, not only an expert in embroidery and design, she ran the embroidery department at her father’s business, Morris & Co. She also founded the Women’s Guild of Arts as the Art Workers Guild did not admit women - like her father was a true pioneer at the time with her talent and activities to progress women’s rights - a remarkable woman indeed 🌿 We were lucky enough to see some stunning original May Morris embroideries at our friends @williammorrissocietyuk - she was a true talent 🧵🪡
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Give us all the spring florals, we’re absolutely ready for the blooms to bloom this spring 🌷🌿 To celebrate, use code: SPRING on our website for 15% off everything (including our beautiful spring sale with exclusive colour ways and different products!) 🌱 Hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine today 🌞
Beautiful William Morris Daisy is on the table today 🌼
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Celebrating World Book day with a coffee meeting over one of our favourite books; our French archive ⚜️ Filled to the brim with beautiful designs, we might have picked a couple to be our new designs! Quilters, you’re going to want to watch this space! 🫶🏻 If anyone’s interested in how we bring a new design to life, let us know we’d be happy to film it for you! 🥰
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A little afternoon tea set up 🧸 Using stunning Willow Bough blue, we thought this is a perfect William Morris kids afternoon tea party 🤍
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Prepping some beautiful blooms 🌷 Got to include our fabulous William Morris tea towels of course 🩷
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What do you think to our new tote bags? ✨ Now in cotton fabrics, we’ve been perfecting the samples for weeks and they got stolen out the office and taken on a cruise by one of our team who thought they’d be the ideal holiday totes 🤍 what do you think? Shall we make these part of our range? ♥️
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Stunning Daisy is on the table 🫶🏻 Daisy was the first design William Morris produced so it’s always such a special one amongst his fans ✨
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Pack a fabric stack order with us ✨ which William Morris design is your fave? 🤎
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Oh Compton we love you! 🧡 All the details within Compton are so stunning, the winding leaves and florals, did you know it was the last design Morris himself before he passed? 🤎
featuring; William Morris Compton, our licensed digitally printed design ✨
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Back in stock alert! 🐇 One of our all time favourite designs is William Morris Brother Rabbit and we’ve just digitally printed it on cotton in the red everyone has always loved so much from our licensed collection 🥰
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📣 We’ve got a big announcement! 📣 We are now digitally printing our fabrics 🎉 Still printed in the United Kingdom (of course!) we always aim to bring you the highest quality, licensed William Morris designs (and exclusive florals but more on that later..) and by digitally printing them we can really focus on the details within the fabric, you can see how crisp all the aspects within the design are here: the little strawberries and the birds are so clear in the design 🍓 Printed onto high quality cotton, we’re so pleased to be able to print Morris designs displaying all the details just as he drew all those years ago 🎨 Timeless designs that when he was printing his designs in Merton Abbey Mill using the Indigo dye technique he’d never have been able to imagine the progress made that we can now digitally print them! 🤍 Strawberry Thief red is now back in stock, such a gorgeous design we adore it ♥️
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day this week, we’ve been looking through some Pre-Raphaelite love quotes including this one from Dante Gabriel Rossetti ♥️ They sure knew how to write poetry, we’ll share more of their beautiful words this week ✨
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Today’s tablescape feels very Valentines pretty 🤍 Beautiful Charlotte Rose is our design from our French archive, so timeless it’s on our table constantly through the year 🌹
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We’re closed for holiday soon! 🪩 From the 21st Jan- 6th Feb we’ll be taking a little break, so make sure your orders are placed before then, or we will send it when we’re back ✨ since we’re treating ourselves, we thought we’d treat you too with 15% off our website with code; MORRIS - valid until we close 🤍
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 We hope you’ve all had a wonderful day ✨
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There’s still time to get your Christmas shopping ticked off! ✨ Free gift wrap on your orders and 10% off everything with code; festive 🎄 Just email us or message us to let us know you’d like us to gift wrap your order ☺️
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Loving cutting beautiful fabric stacks this Christmas! 🎄 A fabric stack is an ideal gift for quilters and crafters in your life, they’ll be able to enjoy using them for their next project ✨
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