Cornflowers at Kelmscott

    I blame the heat - 32 degrees - for my failure to take note (or even notes) of what I was seeing at Kelmscott Manor last weekend. It was so sapping that I wilted, wandered round in a dwalm, and didn't think to ask the guide about this design sketch in William Morris's bedroom, so I can't tell you whose hand is behind it or what, if anything, it eventually became. I must go back on a cooler day.

    Whatever the weather, though, I recommend The Bell Inn at nearby Langford for lunch.

Comments

[Fran]

Just a thought, it could be one of his daughter May’s designs. Lots of her work at the recent exhibition at William Morris’ childhood home in Walthamstow, London. I have also see some intricate embroidered bedspreads at the NT property Standen in West Sussex, again many of May’s designs used by the women of the house who must have spent years sewing!

[Cornflower]

I too wondered if it was May's. Also on display was The Homestead and the Forest cot quilt, designed by May and stitched by her mother - as you say, Fran, given what they accomplished they must never have put down their needles!