#arts and crafts movement

[dresshistorynerd]

I'm so fucking tired of every book on William Morris or Arts & Crafts Movement in general being like: "William Morris said he's a socialist and yet he ran his design business successfully! Curious! Wasn't it kinda hypocritical to criticise society but also live in society?? Hmm! A lot to think about!"

And they are always soo smug about it. Like he didn't realize that everyone has to still participate in capitalism to survive? Like if you read the things he actually said and wrote he didn't talk about how frustrated he was about the material reality of capitalism, which he had to live in? And like that being a major reason why he in the first place was anti-capitalist????

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Florence Harrison, "Two Red Roses Across the Moon" from Early Poems of William Morris (1914)

via internet archive

[eirene]

Prairie Rose, circa 1915 Hannah Borger Overbeck

Floral Friday

[nuveau-deco]

Jewelry Segment. Designed by Jessie M. Preston ca. 1900-1917, Chicago. Mother-of-pearl mounted in silver.

(Source: artic.edu)

[oncanvas]

Pegasus, Walter Crane, 1889

Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on paper laid on linen 28 x 28 in. (71 x 71 cm)

[the-cricket-chirps]

William Morris and John Henry Dearle

The Bullerswood Carpet

1889, London, England

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

165 & 349 “Porcupine”

Usually these tile pairs are duplicate compositions, but not these! 👀

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

[mollyvega]

This sophisticated individual is Riley. As someone who is obsessed with symmetry, I always get excited whenever I can work with Arts and Crafts movement designs ✨

[theamazingsaraman]

They look familiar…

I have a card with this image on it from the National Gallery of Ireland which I definitely didn’t buy solely because it reminded me of Crowley and Aziraphale 😅 now that we’ve seen them both in angel form together it seems particularly perfect. The Crowley one even has a plant 🪴😌

‘Two Winged Angels in Profile’ 1924, Harry Clarke, Oil on canvas

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Edward Burne-Jones for Morris and Co.

'MEDEA’ THREE-TILE PANEL, CIRCA 1870

[the-darling-house]

The parlour was a striking room even by the standards of Penhallick House. The Morris paper on the walls held a dense pattern of leaves and clusters of flowers in red and blue and yellow, woven through with thorny tendrils studded with tinier flowers in startling white. It filled the walls in wide panels between dark, carved wood that stretched from the floor and formed arching ribs where it met the ceiling.

- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Florence Harrison, "The Defence of Guenevere" from Early Poems of William Morris (1914)

via internet archive

[eirene]

After The Prom, 1908 Carl Larsson

[nuveau-deco]

Rookwood Pottery Trivet Featuring a Rook. American, manufactured in 1919, medium is matte-glazed earthenware. Dimensions: 14.3 x 14.3 x 2.2 cm.

(Source: collection.imamuseum.org)

[classic-art-favourites]

A Herald of Spring by Walter Crane, 1872.

[cair--paravel]

An Arts and Crafts silver, opal and pearl necklace, attributed to the Birmingham School, c. 1910 (via).