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5th July 2019
We thought you might want to take a closer look at our Summer William Morris designs. The weather here in the North of England is finally heating up so it felt right we wrote this blog now! We’ve got crossed fingers that the sun will stick around for the long haul.
Perfect all year round of course, these are the one’s we’re gravitating towards during the Summer months.
It’s the colourings within Trellis that not only make it bright for summer but also allow it to suit every outfit you wear it with. The blue pops against denim and the pink and red flowers. The softer cream, grey and green are beautifully neutral. Trellis was the first wallpaper Morris designed; can you believe he produced something so lovely first time round! Trellis remains one of our all time favourites. The birds within the design, as with many other patterns with naturalistic elements, were designed by his good friend and colleague, Philip Webb.
You can almost feel the movement within this design. Inside on the kitchen table, it feels like a breath of Summer air through the open window.
We have Willow Bough in both green and blue. May Morris, William’s daughter, used Willow Bough to decorate her bedroom – it was then adapted for fabric in 1895 when it was block printed at Merton Abbey.
May wrote about the Willow Bough design, “We were walking one day by our little stream that runs into the Thames and my father pointed out the detail and soon after the paper was done.”
Lily is a design we can see lots of people have taken huge inspiration from in fashion this season. There’s lots of ‘Morrisesque’ designs on the market right now. The willow background features lilies and wildflowers within it, the flowers providing pops of colours throughout the design.
This was the design that Morris himself chose to wallpaper his bedroom at Kelmscott Manor with. Out of all his designs, he chose this one so it must have been a personal favourite. It’s easy to see why!
Sweet Briar was designed in 1912 as a wallpaper and only soon afterwards was adapted for fabric. The background is a soft cream with climbing and winding rose stems in green and soft brown. The sweet briar roses themselves are prominent within the design. The design and it’s name have always reminded us of the traditional fairytale books; we could imagine the stems and roses wrapping round some old beautiful font!
We don’t really need to tell you why Merton is in our summer choices, you can see from the photo that it’s summer in a design! Stunning blue and white, we also have this design in a green and cream colour way. This design was first produced in 1888. Morris created his company Morris & Co. and moved their premises to Merton Abbey in Surrey in 1881. This was the first design that was printed on rotary screens.
Take a look through our collection and let us know on social media what your favourite Morris summer design is!
Posted in William Morris by Laura
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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We’re going to have to look at this English summer through our rose coloured specs we think and set the table summery despite the rain!☔️🩷 We thought this made the perfect table setting; a bouquet with blooms out the garden wrapped in a Daisy napkin cone, doesn’t it look great! 🫶🏻 We’re going to put a small bunch at everyone’s seat and then they can take them home to enjoy at their houses 🌿
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✨ It’s the last day for 20% off our whole website! ✨ Use code: floralsummer at checkout on our website today only! 🫶🏻
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We’re thinking of selling our William Morris Daisy fabric by the half metre 🫶🏻 It’s a much narrower fabric than our usual fabrics, but we’ve had some customers interested in it in cotton and heavyweight for projects such as upholstery, curtain and dress making and quilting projects, what do you all think? ✨🌿
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✨✨ Offer extended ✨✨ We forgot to give you warning that our 20% off code was expiring and we thought it would brighten up some rainy July days, so now until the 14th July, take 20% off our website using code: FLORALSUMMER ☂️
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Always learning new napkin folds- anyone fancy a tutorial on how to make this little cutlery napkin jacket? 🍴🫶🏻 We’ve been using Willow Bough green and blue together on the table lately and we LOVE them together! 🌿 what do you think? Would you put them together on your table? ☺️
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These blooms 😍 We absolutely adore this design Charlotte Rose, it’s from our French archive that we lovingly restored to its former glory and bring out all year round for on the table- we paired it here with our Willow Bough green tablecloth and the greens and pinks go together so well 🫶🏻
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Cut this wonderful fabric stack yesterday 🫶🏻 All these beautiful Morris florals together in our heavyweight fabrics 🪡🧵
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Our biggest summer sale alert! ‼️ Fancy 20% off our entire website?✨ Including our timeless Morris Strawberry Thief licensed design and everything else in our collection, just use code; floralsummer at checkout, hurry, it ends on the 7th July 🫶🏻
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One of our favourite Morris quotes 🫶🏻
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Enjoying peony season with some fresh blooms 🫶🏻
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Breakfast featuring Strawberry Thief taking pictures whilst waiting for the toast to pop! 🍓
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The simple things in life- a coffee and biscuit in the garden with some flowers 🌷 swipe for a little someone who is all ears when the word biscuit is mentioned 😅🍪
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Can’t go on holidays without our Strawberry Thief windbreak to huddle behind! ⛱️ We upcycled this using the posts from our old one, if you’ve got one hanging about the garden shed, the how-to is on our blog so you can craft your own using our William Morris fabrics that we sell by the half metre 🫶🏻
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Bertie’s been loving Bridgerton and thought he’d pose with the wisteria wearing his Daisy cravat 😉
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When the audio accurately sums up how you feel about a design 🫶🏻 Beautiful Sweet Briar was first designed in 1912, we love the sweet little pink flowers in the climbing rose stems 🌹 This licensed Morris design is now back in stock, let us know if you’d like a sample! ✨
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Our William Morris Willow Bough green placemats are now back in stock! ✨ They’re a beautiful addition to the table for every meal time 🫶🏻
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