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17th September 2018
We’ve got that pep in our step as we move into the Autumn months and as the sun begins to fade, we always get a bit of an itch to do something different with our interior design. Whenever Autumn/ Winter rolls round, we do naturally find ourselves staying in just a little bit more, swapping evenings out in the park with a picnic with a night in with cosy cocktails and film nights. This means that we’re inviting people over more which is when, suddenly it hits us that we need to spruce the place up a little.
So, we’ve hit the ground running, swapping out household textiles in the kitchen – the tablecloth, oven gloves and tea towels hanging over the oven and are even considering changing the curtains for a different, darker pattern.
There’s one other project we’ve currently been working on; a DIY frame wall. You’ll probably have seen similar frame walls all over Pinterest and Instagram but we just love them! We love the different sized frames all together to really transform a space and not only make it a little more special but also encourages us to get creative and mix and match patterns. We also love that they’re just framed so you can easily switch out what’s within the frames really quickly.
With all William Morris designs, they truly are pieces of art and so we wanted to showcase them as such by framing our licensed William Morris fabrics in frames for our frame wall. We’ve photoshopped these frame walls with our own fabric so that we can decide which fabrics we like best where before we go ahead and knock some nails into the wall!
Our first frame wall has two bigger fabrics and then three small, we like that they’re all contained in one square block. The best thing about the walls is that since they’re contained in their own frames, they’re completely separate designs which are featured in their own right but also breaks up the pattern so you can have more than one pattern. Instead of being overwhelmingly patterned, it’s actually really beautiful and the colours all compliment each other.
The designs here from left to right:
Top row: William Morris Eyebright, William Morris Willow Bough, William Morris Lily,
Bottom row: William Morris Trellis and William Morris Brother Rabbit Red.
This second wall is all next to each other in a straight line which would work well if you had a corridor space which needs something in a row instead of up and down which could make the narrow space feel smaller. The frames extended down the corridor will naturally draw your eye sideways and elongate the space. We’ve kept quite within the same colour palettes with this one apart from Willow Bough blue, but we think the pops of colour from the roses within Trellis and the red within Golden Lily are really allowed to shine here.
The designs from left to right: William Morris Trellis, William Morris Willow Bough Blue, William Morris Pimpernel Green and William Morris Golden Lily.
Our final wall is perhaps our favourite. Featuring every single one of our designs, the grey wall allows the different fabrics to really stand out. With frames both landscape and portrait, if we were to do this again, we’d probably make one or two of the frames much larger for contrast as we did in our first example. However, it’s stunning to see all the designs together and how they can all work together. We didn’t think too much about colours next to each other, in fact we quite like the fact some of them are completely different colour palettes – the light Lily design next to the darker Eyebright for instance. But, we’re so excited how it turned out – we need to get ourselves some frames so we can put this into action! The light wall is a must behind it so that nothing is too contrasting but the modern grey works well and as does the difference of frames with some portrait and some landscape. We’ve seen frame walls on Pinterest which have some variation in frames too which the majority thin gold frames with some as quite ornate and gilded which looks absolutely stunning. We do want to try this but must remember to not let the frames take over and make it all look a little too much with so much design too.
Fabrics used:
Top row: William Morris Willow Bough, William Morris Golden Lily, William Morris Brother Rabbit red, William Morris Lily, William Morris Eyebright, William Morris Trellis, William Morris Willow Bough, William Morris Brother Rabbit blue
Middle Row: William Morris Strawberry Thief red, William Morris Lily, William Morris Pimpernel Cream, William Morris Willow Bough Green, William Morris Brother Rabbit Blue, William Morris Mallow Wine, William Morris Compton, William Morris Strawberry Thief, William Morris Pimpernel Green
Bottom Row: William Morris Compton, William Morris Mallow Wine, William Morris Strawberry Thief Blue, William Morris Golden Lily, William Morris Strawberry Thief Red, William Morris Eyebright, William Morris Willow Bough Green.
We even repeated some of the designs – with so many frames we did repeat a few times but just spaced them apart so it’s hard to notice!
Initially, we thought the fabrics would all be a little ‘too much’ next to each other but actually, they work so well together. The best thing about it is that it can be changed from season to season to fit the colour scheme of the season or even, just when you get bored! We wanted to show how we envision changing out the designs with the below – in the Spring/Summer months we’d frame Willow Bough blue and change that to Compton for the Autumn/Winter months to give some variety and make it feel seasonal!
We sell our William Morris fabric by the half meter so it’s perfect for frames big and small! All our William Morris fabric is licensed and printed both colour and size wise to our own specification to best suit our products. If you’d like a sample, please let us know your name and address and we’d be happy to send you a sample out.
Our full range of fabrics can be found here.
The fabric has so much more depth than printed paper so we love it so much for this type of project!
If you make your own featured frame wall from our fabric, please make sure to send us pictures on social media or by emailing it to [email protected] and we will send you a 20% discount code in return for your next shopping trip on our website!
Posted in William Morris by Laura
Is there anything better than fresh flowers? 🌻 Bringing sunshine and nature indoors with Merton blue on the table today 🤍
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In 1864, William Morris designed gorgeous Trellis- inspired by the rose trellis in the gardens of @redhousent 🌹 We’ve got a limited collection of small and large cotton tote bags that we’ve just put live on the website- the perfect accompaniment to your next day out, it’s a design that’s proved itself to be timeless, plus it’ll go with every outfit, what’s not to love! 🤍 If everyone loves our cotton totes, we could bring them out in more designs, which design would you like to see a tote in? 🌟
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Perfect in every colour; it’s Brother Rabbit ✨ Our licensed William Morris Forest Green colour way of Brother Rabbit now comes in tea towel form to add some timeless floral magic to your kitchen, did you know the birds and rabbits within the design were drawn by Philip Webb? 🐦⬛
Our tea towels are all printed and manufactured in the UK, and are £10.99 each 🌟
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Gorgeous Mallow Forest Green in the sunshine this week ☀️ Our heavyweight fabric is so versatile with so many crafts, what will you make? 🧵
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Wrap an order with us for a custom bundle of some wedding table linens 🌿 These Mallow Forest Green napkins and a custom table runner are now on their way to a customer to adorn their wedding tables, we’re so pleased to be involved in the tables of a few weddings this year! 🤍 If you are looking for gorgeous timeless William Morris florals for your tables, get in touch we’d love to discuss it with you ✨
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It’s coming home! 🏴 To celebrate, take 15% off our website all weekend with code: HOME at checkout ⚽️ Hurry it ends Tuesday 🌿
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The latest project, a little quilted jacket! ✨ Our William Morris Merton Blue cotton fabric is looking gorgeous, we’ll show you it when it’s finished ☺️ Remember if you’re quilting, our cotton fabric is perfect for the projects and we have lots of complimenting designs and colour ways within our range! 🪡
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We’re often asked what the different weights of our fabrics are and what projects they’d be good for. These are our three different types of fabrics in our Brother Rabbit red colourway - cotton on the right, heavyweight in the middle and pvc on the left ✨ As you can see on the second photo, and as the name suggests, our heavyweight fabric has a thicker, heavier weave which makes it good for projects such as curtains and light upholstery 🪡 Our cotton fabric is perfect for quilting and projects such as dress making but honestly the amount of crafts that can be made out of them both are endless! 🫶🏻 Our pvc fabric is great to put straight on the table as it won’t fray so doesn’t need a hem and is easy to maintain as it’s wipe clean! All our fabrics are sold by the half metre and if you’d like a sample of any of our fabrics in any weight just let us know and we’ll get a free sample sent to you! 💌
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Our William Morris range is a gorgeous mix of colours and florals, which is your favourite? In some designs such as Strawberry Thief, Brother Rabbit, Willow Bough and Mallow we have different colour ways that we digitally print in the UK so check our website for the full range! 🫶🏻
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Perhaps the most famous Morris design, Strawberry Thief was registered in 1883, inspired by Morris watching the thrushes stealing strawberries from under his fruit nets at the beautiful @kelmscottmanor 🍓 It was printed using the indigo dye technique, which was labour intensive and first attempted in 1875 but not perfected for 8 years 🎨 We also print Strawberry Thief in a beautiful red 🫶🏻
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Gorgeous Golden Lily, designed in 1897, it’s been a timelessly popular design ever since but did you know that it really increased in popularity in the 1960s when the Beatles George Harrison wore a Golden Lily shirt? ✨
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Daisy is a special one to many as it was the second ever design Morris created, in 1864, made up of repeating drawn Meadow Daisies 🌼
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We print Willow Bough in this beautiful blue and also in green 🌿 First designed in 1887, it was first produced as a wallpaper design which May Morris, Williams daughter, used to decorate her bedroom before being adapted for fabric in 1895 when it was block printed in Merton Abbey 🌿
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Trellis is a special design as it was the first wallpaper he designed for his company, Morris & Co. In 1864 🌿 It was inspired by the rose trellis in the garden of his stunning home @redhousent that he co designed with his friend and architect, Philip Webb
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We print Mallow in a wine colourway and this beautiful forest green colour ✨ It was first printed in 1879 and used to hang in the wonderful Arts & Crafts home, @standennt in the Croxley bedroom 🫶🏻
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you’ve got to make everything an event, including breakfast! 🥐
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On the table;
Willow Bough blue placemats- £38.99
Willow Bough blue napkins- £20.99 ✨
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Have you seen our forest green colourways of Mallow and Brother Rabbit? 🌿 We brought them out last year and were so happy that they’re ever so popular with everyone 💚 This week we’ve also got a 10% discount running on our website with code: floralsummer 🌅
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Did you know all our fabrics are printed and all our products manufactured in the UK? 🤍 It’s important to us that our William Morris fabrics are all high quality and the printed colours all beautiful to ensure all his designs live on timelessly to a high standard 🇬🇧
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Products featured; our Daisy William Morris tea towel - £10.99 ✨
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A moment for the greens! 💚 Can you name all these beautiful green William Morris designs? 🌿 All digitally printed here in the UK 🇬🇧 The good thing seeing them all together is you can see which work together for a sewing project or quilt, or layered together for your next tablescape! 🫧
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Did you know we do bundles of our fabric offcuts? 🌿 Perfect for sewer and quilters, they’re various sizes and designs and available on our Etsy and website - this is our latest “almost fat quarter” bundle that all are almost 50cm pieces, you could even make double sided cushions or anything! What would you create? 🪡🧵 (message us if you’d like a link to our bundles!🫧)
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With this hot weather upon us, if you’re like us and using it to get all your washing out and dry, we thought we’d tell you our washing guidelines! 🫧 We’d recommend folding your fabric face to face when in the wash (so pattern side to pattern side!) to protect the print and then wash at 30 degrees, hang on the line to dry! 🧺 All our fabrics are digitally printed in the UK and products manufactured in the UK 🇬🇧
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All our wonderful William Morris fabrics are digitally printed here in the UK, creating high quality print in incredible colour ways, if you’re quilting and crafting from our cotton and heavyweight cotton fabrics, we thought it’d be handy to have all the pattern repeats in an easy to save post ☺️
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Merton in blue is one of the most beautiful William Morris designs, a timeless blue and white, it was first designed in 1888!
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If you’d like a sample of Merton, just send us a message and we’ll get one sorted out for you!
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Have you seen Merton before? It’s so underrated as a Morris design we think! It was actually the first design that he printed on rotary screens under the name “Morris & Co.” After their rebrand from “Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.’” 🌿 We’re just appreciating it during peony season!
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Taking a closer look at beautiful Lily design, a timeless design Morris designed in 1874, if you’d like a sample of Lily, just let us know! 💌
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The table details;
Lily napkins- £16.99 for 4
Lily tablecloths- starting from £29.99 depending on size
Also mentioned;
Lily cotton by the half metre- £9.25
Lily heavyweight cotton by the half metre- £10.25
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When cutting fabric stacks, we always wonder what is being made from them, we often get messages about quilts being stitched together with various tonal colours, curtains ready to be part of daily life or dresses being sewn to be worn to the next big event, so if you ever make anything from our fabrics- whether it be a huge project or a tiny one made of our scrap bundles, do let us know what you make! 🪡🧵
Can you name the designs within the photo? All sold by the half meter, £18.50 per metre of cotton, £20.50 per metre of heavyweight cotton 🫶🏻
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Putting the spotlight on Mallow Forest Green, we love this design so much it’s so effortlessly beautiful, it’s been admired in homes for more than 147 years since William Morris designed it ✨
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The table details;
Mallow napkins- £16.99
Mallow tablecloths- starting at £29.99 depending on size
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