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	William Morris - MSN Encarta
		William Morris (1834-96), English poet, artist, and socialist reformer, who urged a return to medieval traditions of design, craftsmanship, and community.
		Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, on March 24, 1834.
		The work of Morris, both in poetry and in the applied arts, is characterized by an emphasis on decorative elements, especially on those that he thought to be characteristic of the art of the Middle Ages.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563639/William_Morris.html (527 words)

	William Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts movement and is best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction, and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain.
		Morris found himself rather awkwardly positioned as a mediator between the marxist and anarchist sides of the socialist movement, and bickering between the two sides eventually tore the Socialist League apart.
		Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, Kelmscott Manor at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer retreat, but it soon became a retreat for Rossetti and Jane Morris to have a long-lasting affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Morris (1323 words)

	William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (10 October 1877–22 August 1963) was the founder of the Morris Motor Company and a philanthropist.
		Morris was born in Worcester, England in 1877.
		Morris was married to Elizabeth Anstey on 9 April 1904 - there were no children, and as a result he dispersed a large part of his fortune to charitable causes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Morris,_1st_Viscount_Nuffield (462 words)

	Baxters Jewellers - William Morris
		William Morris the father of the Arts and Crafts movement was a man of enormous talent and scope and is remembered as a designer, an artist, a poet and a socialist reformer.
		William Morris was an important influence on the Art Nouveau movement and such notable figures as Frank Lloyd Wright have said Morris was a direct influence in their work Morris's inspiration was the past and he never created anything without referring to it being inspired by old images to create new designs.
		William Morris died on October 3 1896 and is remembered in the words of the poem On the Death of William Morris written by Walter Crane for a life "Woven in song and written in design".
	www.baxtersjewellers.com /william_morris.html (549 words)

	William Morris Biography and Summary
		William Morris was a man of abundant energy and many talents which he devoted to art, literature, and social justice.
		William Morris has been seen as a man who divided himself among the fine and literary arts, crafts, and social concerns including the preservation of historic churches, but this characterization does not ring true.
		William Morris(March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist activist and pioneer of Eco-socialism, one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patte...
	www.bookrags.com /William_Morris (553 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: William Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London, in 1834, during a period of urban expansion and industrialisation that was to see the destruction of large areas of Epping forest that stood to the East of his birthplace.
		Morris was distinctly against the mass produced commercialism of his age, and yet, with some irony, he was the product of trade and maintained a successful arts and crafts business throughout his life.
		Morris later dismissed his education as meaningless, but it provided him with access to medieval illuminated manuscripts, an extensive reading in mythology and legend, and some understanding of current artistic movements such as that of the Pre-Raphaelites.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3210 (1445 words)

	Morris, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		With friends, he started (1861) the firm of decorators later famous as Morris and Company, which, in reaction to growing industrialism, sought a return to the working operations of the Middle Ages and a revitalization of the splendor of medieval decorative arts (see arts and crafts).
		In these works Morris contrasts the ugliness of the machine world with the poetry and beauty of the Middle Ages, setting forth the doctrine that art is the expression of joy in labor rather than an exclusive luxury.
		Morris had a profound influence on the printing industry with his brilliant graphic contrast of ink with page and his elegantly designed type.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/Morris-Wm.html (493 words)

	Charles Rupert - William Morris History
		William Morris designed wallpaper, fabric and tile patterns, which have remained in production for over a century.
		William Morris died in 1896 and Morris and Co. continued until 1905 when it was renamed Morris and Co. Decorators Ltd. Success continued through 1925 with yet another name change: Morris and Company Art Workers Ltd. With the onslaught of the Depression, business declined and the "Firm" was liquidated in 1940.
		A lifelong friend of William Morris, Burne-Jones is best known for his paintings, but also collaborated with Morris on the design of tapestries, stained glass and on the decoration of furniture and interiors.
	charlesrupert.com /williammorris/history/index.html (796 words)

	Charles Rupert - William Morris History
		William Morris designed wallpaper, fabric and tile patterns, which have remained in production for over a century.
		William Morris died in 1896 and Morris and Co. continued until 1905 when it was renamed Morris and Co. Decorators Ltd. Success continued through 1925 with yet another name change: Morris and Company Art Workers Ltd. With the onslaught of the Depression, business declined and the "Firm" was liquidated in 1940.
		A lifelong friend of William Morris, Burne-Jones is best known for his paintings, but also collaborated with Morris on the design of tapestries, stained glass and on the decoration of furniture and interiors.
	www.charlesrupert.com /williammorris/history (796 words)

	William Morris Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		William Morris (1834-1896), one of the most versatile and influential men of his age, was the last of the major English romantics and a leading champion and promoter of revolutionary ideas as poet, critic, artist, designer, manufacturer, and socialist.
		Born at Walthamstow, Essex, on March 24, 1834, William Morris was the eldest son of a bill and discount broker with wealth and status approaching those of a private banker.
		Morris first entered the arena of politics in 1876 to attack Disraeli's Tory government and call for British intervention against the Turks for savagely suppressing a nationalist revolt of oppressed Bulgarians.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-morris (735 words)

	William Richard Morris
		It has been said that the Morris Minor is the car that typifies "Englishness" and yet the designer was the son of a Greek father and a German mother, and the style was based on current American cars.
		Morris Motors unquestionably had the finest small car in the world with the Minor, it was one of the first cars in its field to handle well.
		The Morris Minor was the brainchild of Alec Issigonis, born in Smyrna Turkey in 1906.
	website.lineone.net /~bmmoc/William_Morris.htm (1160 words)

	William Morris Exhibition
		Morris discovered the foundations of his life's work when he began to decorate Red House, the honeymoon cottage he commissioned from his architect friend Philip Webb (1831-1915)for himself and his new wife, Jane Burden (1839-1914), in Kent.
		Morris achieved a suggestion of depth in his designs by either applying larger designs over smaller ones or by overlaying shades of the same color.
		In the early 1870s, Morris extended his dyeing experiments to include full lengths of cloth for use in printed textiles, after an unsuccessful search for an outside firm that could reproduce both the colors and nuances of his designs to his satisfaction.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/morris.html (1621 words)

	Desktop Wallpaper Download
		Morris designed two wallpapers, Daisy and Trellis, in the early 1860s when he was living at Red House.
		Morris used similar ‘clumps’ of flowers for embroidery and tile designs of the 1860s.
		Morris began the design in September 1883, writing to his daughter Jenny that, although ‘the wet Wandle is not big but small’, he wanted to make the pattern ‘very elaborate and splendid … to honour our helpful stream’.
	www1.walthamforest.gov.uk /wmg/free.htm (310 words)

	William Morris - a brief biography
		Morris felt as deeply about the quality of design as he did about the quality of life and believed that the two were intrinsically entwined.
		His fabric printing required him to learn the art of carving for the wooden blocks, as well as natural dyeing, a technique which had disappeared and took him many years to rediscover and to perfect; Strawberry Thief is an excellent example of his achievement.
		Morris continued to write all his life: poetry, socialist doctrines and enchanting fairy stories, which are believed to have influenced Tolkien.
	www.bethrussellneedlepoint.com /William-Morris.htm (348 words)

	William Morris
		Morris and Burne-Jones were committed Anglicans and for a time they talked of taking part in a "crusade and holy warfare" against the art and culture of their own time.
		William Morris was to my mind one of the greatest men of genius this or any other land has ever known.
		It was William Morris who first made me consciously aware of the ugliness of a society which so arranged its affairs that its workers were deprived of the beauty which life should give.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jmorris.htm (2440 words)

	William Morris: A Brief Biography
		In 1853 Morris, who had vague notions of becoming a High-Church Anglican clergyman, entered Exeter College at Oxford, where he met Edward Burne-Jones, who was engaged in similar pursuits: Burne-Jones, who would become one of the greatest of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, would remain Morris's closest friend for the remainder of his life.
		Again, these years were formative: Morris, already possessed by the feeling that he had been "born out of his due time," fell in love with mediaeval art and architecture and with the mediaeval ideals of chivalry and of the communal life.
		For Morris, the Socialist movement, after 1870, came more and more to seem to be the only way to resolve the problems--poverty, unemployment, the death of art, the growing gap between the upper and lower Classes--which he saw as being the pervasive legacy, in Victorian society, of the ongoing Industrial Revolution.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/morris/wmbio.html (1616 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Art History: Artists: M: Morris, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Morris and Co. - Company founded as a direct result of the design, decoration, and furnishing of the Morris's new home, Red House (situated in what is now a South London suburb) by a group including Morris himself and a number of his friends and associates.
		William Morris (1834-96) - Notes on William Morris, especially relating to his activities as an artist and illustrator and his relations with the arts and crafts and with the Pre-Raphaelites.
		William Morris - Art and Idealism - Victorian Values - Morris under the influence of John Ruskin developed into a socialist, and environmentalist, while at the same time he built a furniture and household goods company that was firmly entrenched in Victorian England.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Art_History/Artists/M/Morris,_William (622 words)

	The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design
		Morris fashioned new forms and styles by delving deep into the art and culture of the past, building a modern art on medieval foundations.
		Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company, known to its members as "the Firm," was founded in 1861 in London by Morris and a coterie of likeminded artists and friends from Morris's time as a student at Oxford.
		Morris wished "to revive a sense of beauty in home life, to restore the dignity of art to the ordinary household decoration." The intricate layering and intertwining of organic forms in Morris's patterns for wallpapers, such as Jasmine, and textiles, such as his design for the printed textile Iris, are still instantly recognizable today.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/Morris2003/Morris2003.html (2190 words)

	William Morris: Myth, Object and the Animal
		William Morris provides compelling evidence that the surest way to understand aspects of the past millennium and to imagine where we are going, is to look more carefully at the wisdom of where we have been.
		William Morris was born in Carmel, California, in 1957.
		William Morris is sponsored in Tulsa by Oklahoma Arts Council, Paul L. and Helen I. Sisk Charitable Trust, and Philbrook's Contemporary Consortium: Chandler-Frates and Reitz, Mary McMahon and Lon Foster, Jack and Margaret Neely, Donald H. and Rita E. Newman, Ruth K. Nelson and Tom Murphy, Meinig Family Foundation.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa599.htm (938 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - William Morris - Designer, Poet, Politician
		William Morris was born in Walthamstow on 24 March, 1834.
		Morris and his siblings grew up in LLoyd Park, which is now home to the William Morris Galleries.
		Although Morris achieved a lot of fame in his own life time through the Arts and Craft movement, to the population at large, he was more famous for his literature and poems.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A857658 (915 words)

	The Cotswold HyperGuide - William Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Morris was a man of enormous talent and industry who is remembered as a poet, an artist, a designer, a businessman and a socialist reformer.
		In 1861 Morris founded William Morris and Co. with Rossetti and Burne-Jones as partners, and produced a wide range of practical and decorative goods such as textiles, wallpaper, furniture, stained glass, and ceramics, emphasising craftsmanship and the natural beauty of materials in a reaction against the heavily ornate and mass-produced goods of the Victorian era.
		Morris provided a key stimulus to the Arts and Crafts movement, and was in part responsible for a number of important craft workshops established in the Cotswold area.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /hyperg/history/morris.htm (285 words)

	The Cotswold HyperGuide - William Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Morris was a man of enormous talent and industry who is remembered as a poet, an artist, a designer, a businessman and a socialist reformer.
		In 1861 Morris founded William Morris and Co. with Rossetti and Burne-Jones as partners, and produced a wide range of practical and decorative goods such as textiles, wallpaper, furniture, stained glass, and ceramics, emphasising craftsmanship and the natural beauty of materials in a reaction against the heavily ornate and mass-produced goods of the Victorian era.
		Morris provided a key stimulus to the Arts and Crafts movement, and was in part responsible for a number of important craft workshops established in the Cotswold area.
	digital-brilliance.com /hyperg/history/morris.htm (285 words)

	William Morris
		William Morris was one of the most influential voices in Victorian art and architecture, and his influence spread far into the 20th century in the form of the Arts and Crafts Movement that he helped spawn.
		Morris was born at Walthamstow, Essex, in 1834.
		Morris was annoyed that he could find no good textiles and furniture to decorate his new home, so he decided to design them himself.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/morris.htm (574 words)

	Feature: William Morris
		William Morris (1834-96) is best known as an artist-designer: his textile and wallpaper patterns, such as ‘Willow’ (1874), ‘Snakeshead’ (1876) and ‘Medway’ (1885), which were innovative in the late nineteenth century, have achieved classic status and remain popular today.
		Though Morris was a pioneer of ecology, as any reader of News from Nowhere must admit, he did not feel moved to support campaigns to protect wildlife, such as that of the Society for the Protection of Birds, formed in 1889.
		In a 1990 lecture to the William Morris Society, Professor Paul Thompson stated that Morris was active in the CPS as a committee member between 1876 and 1886, and that he helped to sort out the CPS’s troubled accounts in the financial year 1880-81.
	www.oss.org.uk /features/morris/williammorris.htm (1159 words)

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