Five pink flowers with foliated tendrils
Not on view
William Morris’s Arts and Crafts’ movement prized needlework as a medium worked by hand by dedicated practitioners, in a direct riposte to the anonymous industrialization of other, increasingly mass-produced textiles. For more than a decade, the embroidery workshop of Morris & Co. was run by William Morris’s daughter, May. She supervised a team of professional embroiderers who specialized in darned needlework like this, producing a supply of elegantly stylized textile friezes for use as borders and valences.
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