{"product_id":"fruit-blue-william-morris-wallpaper-print","title":"Fruit, Blue · William Morris Wallpaper Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFruit, Blue\u003c\/strong\u003e - a wallpaper designed by William Morris, 1866.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFruit, also called Pomegranate, is one of the three wallpapers Morris designed first, in the early 1860s, with Trellis and Daisy: lemons, oranges, peaches and pomegranates on diagonal branches. This is its blue colourway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCropped to show the pattern edge to edge with no border, so it reads as a panel of the design itself rather than a sample.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Morris (1834-1896) was a designer, poet and campaigner who did more than anyone to found the Arts and Crafts movement. In 1861 he set up the decorating firm that became Morris \u0026amp; Co., and over the next thirty years designed some fifty wallpapers and many more textiles, drawn from the plants of the English countryside and from the medieval tapestries and manuscripts he loved. His patterns have never gone out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wallpapers were printed by hand for the firm by Jeffrey \u0026amp; Co. of Islington, from carved pearwood blocks, one block for each colour, laid down one after another so that each colour dried before the next went on. That slow method gives the flat, slightly uneven colour that machine prints of Morris patterns never quite match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken from a high-resolution photograph of a surviving original, cleaned of dust and marks but otherwise left as it was made. Each print is made to order on cotton-fibre archival paper, then mounted with a wide even border and hand-framed in our workshop rather than sent out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morris","offers":[{"title":"34cm x 49cm","offer_id":55501288309077,"sku":"MORRIS002-M-34X49","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_96d890e0-aa40-470f-bfb1-a4524ec83f29.jpg?v=1792886018","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-us\/products\/fruit-blue-william-morris-wallpaper-print","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}