Old House Textiles

Textiles for your old house, hand crafted in Rochester using fine quality English-made textiles printed with historic designs by William Morris, perfect for old houses.

William Morris (1834-1896) was a British textile designer who had a profound impact on interior design during the Victorian era. He designed tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows.

In 1861, Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. decorative arts firm with Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Webb, and others, which became highly fashionable and much in demand. In 1875, he assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris & Co.

He was also known for his literary contributions, novels and poems, namely The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the Utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End (1896).

In 1877, he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to campaign against the damage caused by architectural restoration. He was influenced by anarchism in the 1880s and became a committed revolutionary socialist activist. He founded the Socialist League in 1884 after an involvement in the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), but he broke with that organization in 1890. In 1891, he founded the Kelmscott Press to publish limited-edition, illuminated-style print books, a cause to which he devoted his final years.