What’s On

This exhibition highlights the collection of objects donated to the William Morris Society by Helena Stephenson, the woman who also bequeathed Kelmscott House to the Society upon her death in 1972. Stephenson was an avid collector and enthusiast of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. She was a member of the Kelmscott Fellowship, Read More

In 1881 Willliam Morris moved his cramped workshop in Queen Square, Bloomsbury to a picturesque 18th-century fabric-printing works on the River Wandle in South London. Here in the old timber sheds, Morris established workshops for tapestry weaving, carpet knotting, block-printed textiles, woven textiles, stained-glass and a dye-works. Along with his older established workforce, Morris employed Read More

The Society recently acquired a new addition to our collection, a book originally owned by Morris himself, gifted to him by Mackenzie Bell, the author. 'Spring's Immortality: And Other Poems' was published in 1895, and features a hand written note to Morris from Bell in the front of the publication, which also contains Morris's own Read More

It’s no secret that the Morris & Co. style has seen a resurgence of popularity in the 21st century, but how did William Morris’s love of the ‘whole art’ of textile printing, influence pattern designers and British manufacturing in the industrialised 20th century? Beginning with the formation of the Design and Industries Association in 1915, Read More