Apple wallpaper

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Date: designed 1877, printed c.1950
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B168
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd

William Morris designed this wallpaper in 1877. The pattern combines apples and scrolling acanthus leaves against a background of foliage. The wallpaper required three wood-blocks with a repeat size of 30.5 x 26.7 cm. This version is a colour match for the finished wallpaper and was probably printed using original Morris & Co. blocks by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd. around 1950, after they acquired the blocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940. It is stamped down the right edge: ‘MORRIS & Co’ and has the pattern number B9386C.

Details

Date: designed 1877, printed before 1940
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B167a
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Jeffrey & Co.
Retailer: Morris & Co.

William Morris designed this wallpaper in 1877. The pattern combines apples and scrolling acanthus leaves against a background of foliage. The wallpaper required three wood-blocks with a repeat size of 30.5 x 26.7 cm. The wallpaper was printed by Jeffrey & Co., who printed all Morris & Co.’s wallpapers. On the reverse the pattern colourway number ‘Apple 97’ is written in blue crayon, although this was the identifying number for the blue colouway, green was no.98 and the brown/pink colourway no.99.

May Morris used Apple to decorate her workroom at her in Hammersmith Terrace.

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Date: designed 1888-89, printed c.1950
Object Type: wallpaper
Technique: block-printed in distemper
Catalogue number: B165
Designer: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Manufacturer: Arthur Sanderson and Sons Ltd

William Morris designed Borage Ceiling wallpaper between 1888-1889. As the name suggests, the paper was intended to decorate interior ceilings and forms a square repeat of 50.8 x 50.8 cm.

This version was printed around 1950, using original Morris & Co. blocks by the firm Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., who acquired the blocks from Morris & Co. when they closed in 1940. It is stamped down the right edge: ‘BORAGE CEILING PAPER’ and ‘MORRIS & Co’.

Object Type: wallpaper

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