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22nd August 2014
Castell Coch, is a castle north of Cardiff, in a beautiful Welsh forest. The Castle, was built in 1870 for the 3rd Marquess of Bute by William Burgess.
Originally, the site held a 13th century castle, which was built from red sand stone- giving Castell Coch its name- which in Welsh means ‘The Red Castle.’
William Burgess was given creative freedom with the Castell, and quoting the Welsh Government page aimed to create a, “rural retreat to complement the opulence of his main residence, Cardiff Castle. He didn’t hold back. Dazzling ceilings, over-the-top furnishings and furniture were liberally applied.”
William Burgess designed the fairytale castle, inspired by John Ruskin, he believed in ornamentaion- every surface in Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch is covered with carvings of birds, animals and historical events. Burgess’ love of medieval Gothic and pre-Raphealite style of design is clearly shown throughout Castell Coch, which makes it a beautiful and magical place to visit.
His career may have been short, Burgess died by the age of 53, but he managed to design churches, castles and houses. His two castle designs in Cardiff though, is what he is remembered for, the fantasy and fairytale-esque feel to them bring visitors from miles around still to this day.
Both Castell Coch and Cardiff Castle are amazing pieces of architecture- as shown here the turrets and towers are magnificent, but for over 100 years they weren’t widely acknowledged by achitechts or historians. It was during the 1970s they were rediscovered after a rebirth of interest in Victorian architecture- it is strange to think today how anyone could over look such amazing achitechture!
If you are ever in Wales, both Castell Coch and Cardiff Castle are definately two places you should visit.
Posted in William Morris by Laura
Autumn tables could potentially be one of our favourites! 🤎 Featuring our William Morris Compton design 🍂🧡
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Weekend evenings warming cookies in the oven 🍪👩🍳 Using our Golden Lily oven gloves of course 🤎
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We adore these stunning Morris designs all together, don’t you? 🤎
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Willow Bough Blue is back in stock! ✨ Year-round this design is an incredibly popular one, isn’t it incredible that it was designed by William Morris in 1887 and remains so timeless all these years later! 🩶
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🪡 Restocked!🧵 Our William Morris crafts, quilting and Archive Products Market has had a re stock! 🤎 Be quick though, there’s only one of most items! 🏃🏽♀️
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Cosy season is here! 🍂 we’re lighting all the candles and getting the autumnal decor out 🍁 With 100 days to go (sorry to mention but we’d do a year countdown if it were up to us!) there’s some fabulous gifts in our archive and craft sale- that we’ve been secretly restocking every day ☺️ Have you bought any prezzies yet? 🎁 also wait for our future post on how to make these pumpkin napkins! 🎃
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We’ll miss the beautiful summer florals, but also can’t wait for some autumnal flowers and foliage! 🌿
Ft beautiful Strawberry Thief blue 🍓
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Beautiful wild flowers on Sweet Briar 🌾 I bet you can all imagine that a pick your own wild flower farm was right up our street! @kemps.farm 🌷
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✨ Launching - our William Morris Crafts, Quilting & Archive Products Market! ✨ We’ve been wanting to do a craft market to showcase some of our archive products and design colour ways for a while, but thought an online one would be fantastic so that all our online friends can come too! ☺️ Various colour ways include Mallow Forest Green and Pimpernel Terracotta! and our market also includes some fabric pieces and some products we aren’t currently producing 🥳 The link is in our bio, there’s one of everything so be quick! Price list on our stories 🥰
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Beautiful Pimpernel Cream 🌿 swipe to see who had an eye on our dessert 👀
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Do you have a fave out of these beautiful William Morris florals? 🌿 We could never pick just one 🪻
Designs top row; Willow Bough Green & Golden Lily
Designs bottom row; Pimpernel Cream, Pimpernel Green & Compton ✨
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Our William Morris florals Daisy and Willow Bough Green expertly modelled by Bertie during his weekend away to the beautiful @castle_howard - he enjoyed wearing a floral cravatte and bow tie pretending to be a Bridgerton (the bow tie did indeed end up being a bow on the top of his head after one too many sniffs 😂🎀)
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Inspired by nature and designed by William Morris, aren’t they all just such beautifully timeless designs 🫶🏻
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Back in stock alert! 🫧 A firm favourite for many, we absolutely love William Morris Brother Rabbit design, don’t you? 🫶🏻 If you’d like a sample, just send us a message 💌
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Did you know all our fabric is printed in the UK and all our products manufactured in the UK too? 🫶🏻 As a small business ourselves, it’s important to us to celebrate and support independent businesses and we love how many incredible businesses use our fabrics for their own products! 🩷
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Bertie is celebrating national dog day in (floral) style on his new little car bed we made, with matching Sweet Briar accessories of course 🥰 If you’re wanting to know how we made this to fit our car, let us know, we’re always happy to write a blog on our craft bits! 🫶🏻
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Calling all quilters! 🫧 Our 100% cotton fat quarters are now available individually on our website! In all our licensed William Morris designs, they are incredible for quilts 🪡 If you order four, you get one free, so please message us to choose the design of your free fat quarter 🫶🏻
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Missing peony season ✨ We’re loving layering Willow Bough blue and green together at the moment, don’t they look so good together 🤍
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We hope everyone’s enjoyed a beautifully sunny weekend ☀️ Bertie enjoyed wearing some Morris florals in the sun ⛱️ For our tutorial on how to make a dog bandana, check out our blog! 🥰
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Did you know that in Japan where our projects are sold, our tea towels are used not only for being functional but for decoration - we love that they’re framed, or laid on the table as a centrepiece to be admired or hung as a draped item to bring some nature indoors 🌿 we thought we’d do the same by using the tea towel as a centrepiece for a simple cup of tea and very delicious piece of cake! 🍰
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