William Morris (1834-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, Romantic, socialist, advocate of a return to traditional craft styles and materials - and a peddler of poisonous wallpaper, according to a ...

A sample of Morris's first wallpaper design from the mid-1860s has been found to contain copper arsenic salt, which created a green pigment used to colour the pattern.

"A heritage wallpaper is usually an older, well-recognized pattern being reproduced by a contemporary manufacturer," Bilotta explained. "The most well-known example is William Morris, a British ...

William Morris is renowned for his rich tapestry designs. A researcher discovers Morris derived his green color from arsenic and dismissed possible health risks posed by its use, though he spoke ...

Your Home Designed in the 1800s, William Morris wallpaper is once again on trend — in a big way While the noted Arts and Crafts designer’s patterns have never gone out of production, they are ...

The obituaries and reminiscences that followed the death of William Morris on October 3 1896 refer to him as a great poet, thinker and tireless worker in the service of humanity, securing his ...

Clockwise: William Morris photographed by Frederick Hollyer, 1874; Honeysuckle wallpaper by William Morris or May Morris, 1883; Mariano Fortuny, photographer unknown, 1900; Trilobite textile by ...

The composition of his block-printed wallpaper “Wild Tulip” (1884), in white on salmon pink, unmistakably echoes the blue, green and red profusion of carnations and tulips on a 17th-century ...

Two of northeast London’s finest exports, Walthamstow Football Club and the William Morris Gallery, are teaming up to create the football kit of dreams. You might’ve seen Morris’s famous ...

Wallpaper designed by a celebrated artist has been restored to mark its creator's 190th birthday. William Morris's willow bough print was hanging at Wightwick Manor and Gardens in Wolverhampton ...

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.