{"id":15651,"date":"2014-08-27T02:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15651"},"modified":"2014-08-27T02:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:04:53","slug":"william-morris-and-his-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/27\/william-morris-and-his-work\/","title":{"rendered":"William Morris and His Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The world isn&#8217;t exactly starved of books about William Morris but <em>William Morris and His Work<\/em> (1899) is the first I&#8217;ve seen that gives an opportunity to study the creation of some of the Morris company&#8217;s florid textile designs. Those that follow obvious repeating patterns (like the bird designs below) don&#8217;t appear technically challenging but I&#8217;ve wondered a few times about the difficulties of creating some of the very elaborate interlacings of foliage that became the Morris hallmark. Lewis Foreman Day wrote a number of books on the history of ornament and design so he&#8217;s an ideal guide. Browse his book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/decorativeartofw00dayl#page\/n7\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia902501.us.archive.org\/4\/items\/decorativeartofw00dayl\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"morris14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/morris14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/12\/21\/walter-cranes-household-stories\/\">Walter Crane\u2019s Household Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world isn&#8217;t exactly starved of books about William Morris but William Morris and His Work (1899) is the first I&#8217;ve seen that gives an opportunity to study the creation of some of the Morris company&#8217;s florid textile designs. Those that follow obvious repeating patterns (like the bird designs below) don&#8217;t appear technically challenging but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/27\/william-morris-and-his-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William Morris and His Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4],"tags":[6398,1188],"class_list":["post-15651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","tag-lewis-foreman-day","tag-william-morris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-44r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}