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Jane Morris. Relatives. Jenny Morris (sister) Mary "May" Morris (25 March 1862 – 17 October 1938) was an English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor. She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and his wife and artists' model, Jane Morris (née Burden).
Sep 19, 2017 · Born in 1862, just when her father launched the business that would become Morris & Co, with its trademarked fabrics, wallpapers and stained glass, May followed her mother Jane, the renowned Pre-Raphaelite model, into the fine craft of embroidery. This period saw a reaction against the machine age, with a revalorisation of traditionally hand ...
Mar 25, 2023 · William Morris Gallery, P644. On this day, one hundred years ago in 1923, the Arts and Crafts luminary May Morris (1862–1938; Figure 1) turned sixty-one years of age. The year marked a turning point in her long and creative life. She left her rented riverside townhouse in Hammersmith, London, and moved permanently to Kelmscott Manor.
A new exhibition at the gallery, May Morris: Art and Life, seeks to redress the imbalance, establishing May as one of the leading designers of the early 20th-century Arts and Crafts movement. More ...
Dec 7, 2021 · Immersed in the world of British design practically from birth, May Morris not only grew to run the embroidery studio of her family’s famous business but also pursued her own endeavors: as a designer, teacher, lecturer, and activist. The family business was the home furnishings empire Morris & Co., founded by her father, William Morris (1834 ...
Mar 26, 2024 · May grew up in the very heart of the arts and crafts movement. The dignitaries of the set regularly visited the Morris family, first in their Red House in Kent, where Morris & Co. was first founded, and then from 1865 in No. 26 Queen Square, Bloomsbury: the family’s flat directly above “the Firm’s” shop.
Dec 24, 2021 · The Legacy of May Morris. Respect for the Work of Women’s Hands. May Morris (LC-B2-797-7), 1909. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. The Industrial Revolution led to a revival of traditional arts and crafts in Great Britain. The sprawling factories and increasing rural poverty spurred May Morris’s ...
