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Set of three helpful tissue pouches william morris prints

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Produced along with the victoria and albert museum in london to coincide with their arts and crafts exhibition, this print is called "Daisy" and is a william morris originial. Discover authentic variations of william morris designs alongside new interpretations, utilizing improvements in printing and weaving technology. The aesthetics of subcultures — like punk for example, which communicates a rejection of the established order and another belonging — also resided throughout the pre-raphaelite brotherhood and the arts and crafts movement (of which morris was a frontrunner) of their distancing from victorian production and values. Socialism in artwork translated for him because the equality of artwork, craft and design, the worth of good craftsmanship, and the idea that good design needs to be accessible to everyone and never just the rich. In 1880 morris was requested to redecorate rooms at london's st. James's palace, a job for which he created a particular...