William Morris Double Sided Bookmark Marigold 1875

Double sided large bookmark with ribbon. 

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.

The most well known designer of this time was William Morris, whose designs have become synonymous with the Victorian era. 

Morris designed forty-one wallpapers and five ceiling papers, working from 1862 with 'Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company' and from 1875 with 'Morris & Company' as sole owner.

"Marigold" exhibits large single blossoms amid leafy meanders over a ground of smaller flowers.

The forms demonstrate close observation of native flowers and sometimes was monochrome in pattern.

A belief in beauty, imagination, and order shaped Morris's work and the popularity of his designs helped to raise British production standards in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

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