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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Medieval textile design, Textile designers, Textile patterns, William Morris, Laura Ashley, Tartan, Bronwyn Bancroft, Mongol elements in Western medieval art, Byzantine silk, Alexander Girard, Charles Voysey, Paisley, Samite, Thelma Johnson Streat, John Henry Dearle, Anna Maria Garthwaite, Helen Berman, Valerie Campbell-Harding, Franco Scalamandre, Mary White, Lucienne Day, Dorothy Liebes, May Smith, Bizarre silk, Jack Lenor Larsen, Bernat Klein, Celia Birtwell, Joan Glass, Border tartan, Campion Platt, Kvadrat, Ruth Reeves, Argyle, Marianne Straub, Sue Timney, Meera Mehta, Houndstooth, Ada Dietz, Astrid Sampe, Benoit Pierre Emery, Toile, William Kilburn, Lily Goddard, Ivana Helsinki, Gingham, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Glen plaid, Strawberry Thief, Naoki Sakai, Graziela Preiser, Giulio Cappellini, Tattersall, Hiroshi Awatsuji, Pin stripes, Herringbone, Silver Studio, Vuokko Nurmesniemi, Grenfell Cloth, Viola Grasten, Check, Persian motifs. Excerpt: William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he is considered an important writer of the British Romantic movement, helping to establish the modern fantasy genre; and a direct influence on postwar authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien. He was also a major contributor to reviving traditional textile arts and methods of production, and one of the founders of the SPAB, now a statutory element in the preservation of historic buildings in the UK. Morris wrote and published po...
