William Morris Double Sided Bookmark Sweet Briar 1873

Double sided large bookmark with ribbon. 

Always recognising that true beauty has its thorns, J.H. Dearle from Morris & Co. designed this, Sweet Briar.

Depicting the small rose heads flowering pleasantly amongst the barbed stems this is the tender yet honest view of nature that characterised the Morris & Co. output under Dearle and Morris. 

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.

Perhaps the most well known designer of this time was William Morris, whose designs along with his peers including John Henry Dearle, have become synonymous with the Victorian era. 

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