William Morris Double Sided Bookmark Sunflower 1879

William Morris

^{Poet, Industrialist, Designer}

Sunflower, 1879 Double sided large bookmark with ribbon. 

Sunflower is one of William Morris'  popular repeating designs for textiles including wallpaper.

"though a late comer to our gardens, [the sunflower] is by no means to be despised, since it will grow anywhere, and is interesting and beautiful, with its sharply chiselled yellow florets relieved by the quaintly patterned sad-coloured centre clogged with honey and beset with bees and butterflies."

^{Bain, Rowan. William Morris's Flowers. Thames & Hudson V&A Publishing, 2019.}

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.

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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