Monkshood Wallpaper - Aqua/Peashoot - 217344 - Morris & CoMonkshood Wallpaper Aqua Peashoot 217344 Morris & Co Beware, Alan Francis Vigers's upbeat, jolly 1901 design has a somewhat sinister undertone. So named because its head resembles the rounded shape of a monk's habit, this plant is also referred to as wolfsbane, recalling its use as a toxic poison used to coat arrows fired at marauding wolves in Classical times. This plant, as treacherous as it is beautiful, is charmingly rendered by Vigers with

One of the earliest and most well loved of William Morris’s designs

Pure Acorn Wallpaper - Ivory/Pearl - 216044 - Morris & Co

91"       Design match: Straight

39"      Design match: Straight

Dearle's 1912 design retains all of its ecstatic movement

12"        Design match: Straight

Strawberry Thief Wallpaper - Teal - W0171/06 - Clarke & Clarke

Pure Fruit (1864) has been carefully reworked as a wallpaper

Dearle's 1911 pattern is given an unmistakable carnivalesque colour change

Pattern repeat: 11

dense pattern

The inspiration for this piece was William Morris’s much earlier pattern