PAST BLAST: William Morris, the 19th-century textile designer synonymous with the British Arts and Crafts movement, is making a comeback with the completion of more than 40 unfinished, archival works ...
A visitor at the exhibition, Beyond William Morris – British Arts and Crafts 1890-1920, in Nanjing Museum (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Curator Max Donnelly is glad that, after working for two and a half ...
If the rise of textiles can be traced alongside the history of capitalism, then William Morris (1834–96) lived a grand contradiction. The nineteenth-century British poet, printmaker, and fabric ...
Whatever the variety of their other opinions, visitors to England in the 19th century were united in at least one thing. The country’s urban environment was hideously ugly and any care for or pleasure ...