William Morris: Design and Enterprise in Victorian BritainThe many achievements of William Morris are described in this volume, which explores his multifaceted career as a political writer and activist, an artist and designer, a man of letters, and a successful businessman. |
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Account Book Andreas Scheu architects architecture artistic Arts and Crafts beauty became began building capital carpets Chaucer Church Cockerell colour commercial commissions Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dearle decorative arts Designer-craftsman Devon Great Consols dyeing E. P. Thompson early Edward Burne-Jones embroidery Exhibition Faulkner figure firm firm's Ford Madox Brown friends furniture George Wardle Georgiana Burne-Jones Gothic Hammersmith Ibid ideas important income Janey John Ruskin Kelmscott House Kelmscott Press Kelvin labour later lecture Letters London loom Mackail Madox Brown manufacturers mature enterprise 1883-91 medieval Merton Abbey Morris & Co Morris & Co.'s Morris's Museum nineteenth century Oxford Street painting Parry partners partnership pattern Philip Webb Pre-Raphaelite production profit Queen Square Red House Rossetti Ruskin Sewter share silk Smiths social socialist Society Sparling stained glass Stanmore Hall style tapestry Thomas Wardle Vallance Victorian Watkinson weaving William Morris Textiles workshops woven fabrics yard