Morris Muse - Exeter Sewing Machine Company

Morris Muse celebrates the unsung women of Arts & Crafts design. William Morris and fellows valued female associates as models and muses - inspiration for male artistic creation. Morris's wife Jane Burden Morris earned no fame for her talents - yet she and daughter May were artists in their own right, designing, stitching and overseeing masterpieces of Morris needlework. Despite late-century conventions that kept them behind the scenes, women in Arts & Crafts circles were true design partners. Prints in this collection continue innovations in natural patterns with rich reds and colour complements echoing interior fashion and the women's preffered style.