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24 de oct. de 2017 · May Morris, youngest daughter of influential designer William Morris, was one of the leading female contributors to the Arts and Crafts Movement. She ran the embroidery department of her father’s famous firm Morris & Co., and had a successful freelance career as a designer, maker, and exhibitor, founding the Women’s Guild of Arts in 1907 and undertaking a lecture tour in the United States ...
18 de mar. de 2019 · Along with being a surface designer, May was an established embroiderer and jewelry designer. She learned to embroider from her mother and her aunt, was in charge of the embroidery department at Morris & Co., and taught embroidery at a London school. She designed and made jewelry, some of which is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
May Morris learned textile design from her father, William Morris (1834-1896), and embroidery from her mother, Jane Burden Morris (1839-1914). An astute businesswoman, author and lecturer, May was so accomplished as a designer and embroiderer that she became Morris & Co.’s director of textile production at age twenty-three.
The exhibition and both publications seek to establish May Morris’s place as one of the ‘most important designer craftswomen’, continuing the work of feminist art history, begun in the 1970s, of historical recovery of women excluded from the history of art, craft and design, and extending what was, and still is, a male-dominated history.
1938. See all 4 artworks ›. Lotus, Design by 1888, made 1888. May Morris. Border for a Table Cover or Valance, Design 1890s. May Morris. Vine Leaf, Design 1896. May Morris. Honeysuckle Fire Screen, Design early to mid-1890s.
A continuación se aborda el núcleo central de trabajo analizando la biografía de May Morris y su figura como artesana en diferentes ámbitos en los que destacó, tales como bordado, indumenta-ria, papel tapiz, joyería, encuadernación y escritos. Finalmente, se analiza la repercusión de la labor de la artista y se extraen las conclusiones ...
20 de jul. de 2022 · Morris died in Kelmscott in 1938 at the age of 76. On the second floor of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is Jane Addams’ bedroom. Many elements of the space have been fashioned to invoke how it may have looked when Ms. Addams was still alive. Several original furniture pieces reside in the room, but perhaps what stands out the most is the ...
