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1st May 2014
As you will have gathered I am interested in all things William Morris, however Morris dancing is something else!
There is evidence to show morris dancing in England from the early 15th century. It was developed by ordinary people and associated with spring festivals, particularly Whitsun. When I happened across these lady morris dancers, I just had to sit and watch.
Although this photo was taken in Yorkshire, this style of “north-west” morris dancing originated in Lancashire and north Cheshire. The close links with the cotton mills are evident from the use of bobbins trimmed with ribbons and bells; the costumes are taken from the design of the smocks worn by the millworkers. The dances typically feature processions, rant stepping, flowery hats, beads, garlands, pom-poms and slings. Some groups wear clogs.
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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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With so many timeless designs and writings, we think Morris achieved his aim, don’t you? 🫶🏻
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Lazy Sunday mornings 💤 our William Morris Strawberry Thief tablecloths are now back in stock in all sizes if you fancy adding some floral magic to your table ✨ Hope you all have a lovely Sunday! 🩷
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A beautiful day on the beach; we had to take our incredible small Compton tote bag to carry a certain someone’s special treats that we got from the lovely @nationaltrust shop, can you tell he was very happy with them! 😂🫶🏻
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