One of Morris’s most celebrated wallpaper patterns was called The Strawberry Thief and the bar of the same name shared the designer’s love of all things artisanal.

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'A soft, flatwoven Ruggable x Morris & Co. rug adds a layer of comfort underfoot - perfect for long hours spent preparing meals or sipping your morning coffee. I love how the intricate prints of ...

William Morris’ workroom from which he ran the Kelmscott Press, with stairs leading up to the coach house where Hammersmith Socialist League meetings were held (Photograph by Emery Walker) Strawberry ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti could always cheer himself up by belittling William Morris. At the top of a letter to Jane Morris in 1868, he scribbled a crest for ‘The Bard and Petty Tradesman’ in which ...

Likewise, a neon “strawberry thief” motif, made at Walthamstow’s God’s Own Junk Yard, rekindles the embers of local production. This emphasis extends to the exhibition’s own making.

The designer, artist, author and all-round polymath William Morris (1834-1896) championed the democratisation of good taste, said Nancy Durrant in The Times.

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His impact on today’s fashion and design is far wider than in his own days, as Morris Mania, a new exhibition held at his former home in London’s Walthamstow, now the William Morris Gallery, proves.

Our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, visits Morris Mania:How Britain’s greatest designer went viral and talks to the William Morris Gallery’s director Hadrian Garrard.

Among these was a “Strawberry Thief” patterned coffin, which “just didn’t feel like the right thing”, Garrard says. At the end of the run, many objects will be sent to local charity shops.

There are also Morris-patterned objects donated by the public. Adding a personal touch, visitors are encouraged to continue to lend and donate their own Morris-print objects throughout the course of ...