Garden Tulip wallpaper

Details

Date: designed 1885, printed before 1990
Dimensions: 53.2
Object Type: wallpaper
Catalogue number: B135a
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd
Credit notes: Presented by Miss H. Brooks, 1991

Garden Tulip was designed by William Morris in 1885. The pattern consists of vertical ribbons of tulip stems meandering over a background of small foliage and flowers. The pattern was also used on printed cotton and linen under the name ‘Medway’. This version of the wallpaper was printed by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., who acquired the original wallpaper woodblocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940.