William Morris Bird Design, 1878
William Morris Textile Designs De Morgan Arts & Crafts Victorian Medieval
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The little birds sang as if it were the one day of summer in all the year. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
William Morris liked to design birds for his homes. Strawberry Thief for Kelmscott Manor, his home in the Cotswolds, and this design, Bird, for the drawing room of Kelmscott House, his London residence in Hammersmith, in 1878. Morris called this design "a woven woold tapestry", but it is not a true tapestry, but rather a doublecloth that he used as a wall covering.
Bird was famously featured on some editions of Anne of Green Gables, first published nearly thirty years later in June 1908.
Bird is seamless both on the horizontal and vertical.
Designer: William Morris
Date: First registered in 1878, and produced by Morris and Co. in 1879 and beyond.
Backgrounds: Dark gray-blue
6 x 6 inch tiles: $68 each
8 x 8 inch tiles: $88 each
