William Morris | The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/william-morris
William Morris (1834–1896) is acknowledged as the leader of the British Arts and Crafts movement of the second half of the nineteenth century. His enterprise, Morris & Company, produced a variety of decorative arts, with textiles and wallpapers comprising a large portion of their artistic output. In 1923, the Metropolitan acquired the institution’s first examples from the oeuvre of Morris & Company, and a selection of these are shown in this installation.
According to the printed company logo on the selvages, the printed textiles bought