Who was William Morris? Morris was an English polymath with interests in textile design and poetry. He was a novelist, translator, and socialist activist and he is perhaps best known for his ...

Detail of embroidery design by May Morris overlaid with portraits of May and her father William Morris (collage Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic, images via Wikimedia Commons) Success! Your ...

Google has chosen British textile great William Morris as its latest doodled celebration, with a selection of inspired images adorning the search engine today. On his 182nd birthday, William ...

British textile designer William Morris has been honoured with a Google doodle, on what would have been his 182nd birthday. Morris was born in Walthamstow, then in Essex, on March 24, 1834.

William Morris is known for his beautiful plant patterns – but he also foretold the climate crisis. He was an environmental visionary and way ahead of his time, writes Andrea Watson You’d be ...

The influence of Islamic art on the designer William Morris seems so obvious that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Though ...

William Morris' contributions to British design, arts and aesthetics are as Google says, 'nearly impossible to sum up". Describing him as a true prodigy, Google says that Morris "dove deeply into ...

A London exhibition is exploring the relationship between the 19th-century British designer William Morris and Islamic art ...

One thing is certain: William Morris, designer and painter, printer and publisher, writer and poet, textile designer and printer, entrepreneur and socialist activist (co-founder of the Socialist ...

A vine weaving through a trellis. A gang of mischievous thrushes stealing strawberries. A scrolling acanthus. These are just a few of the nature-inspired motifs William Morris, the designer ...