William Morris Wall Art

William Morris wall art for your home

William Morris wall art offers repeating botanical patterns created for Victorian interiors, adapted as individual art prints for your home. These prints present the work of William Morris and his circle, who founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861 before reorganizing as Morris & Co. in 1875.

You can explore every William Morris design, with year, designer and type across our collection. The patterns feature climbing branches, wild birds, and dense garden florals, drawn from historic block-printed wallpapers and woven or printed fabrics.

Which designs suit which rooms

Historical records show that Morris & Co. installed patterns in varied living quarters. For private rooms, Emperor Nicholas II selected the Garden Tulip wallpaper for the Imperial Winter Palace in 1895. In London, the Green Dining Room at the South Kensington Museum displayed panels of fruit, flowers, and olive branches by Morris and Philip Webb.

Standen, a house in West Sussex designed by Webb between 1892–1894, integrated wallpapers, fabrics, and carpets throughout the family residence. You can select single William Morris posters for smaller rooms or narrow wall spaces. For wider expanses in living rooms or dining areas, William Morris poster sets (2 or 3 prints) combine two or three coordinating designs to hang side by side.

Canvas or paper

All prints are printed and shipped by ArtsyWall in three formats: Archival Paper, Premium Canvas, and Framed Canvas.

Archival Paper is an unframed, heavyweight 340gsm cotton rag paper with a subtle texture and watercolor feel. It ships rolled in a tube, allowing you to frame it behind glass.

Premium Canvas uses thick, acid-free archival canvas hand-stretched on solid wood bars. ArtsyWall uses giclée printing rated fade-resistant for more than 100 years. This format arrives ready to hang with a sawtooth hanger mounted on the back.

Framed Canvas mounts the stretched canvas inside a wood floating frame, leaving a small gap around the edges so the image appears suspended. This format comes in six frame finishes: black, white, gold, silver, walnut, and oak. It arrives with a hanging wire attached.

Pattern as art

During the nineteenth century, Morris revived hand woodblock printing and natural dyeing with madder and indigo, turning away from roller printing and synthetic aniline dyes. Our guide: William Morris, life and work details how he organized workshop production at Queen Square and the Merton Abbey Works.

While Morris drew famous patterns such as Garden Tulip, several lasting designs came from his colleagues. John Henry Dearle began as a shop assistant in 1878 and became the firm’s head designer by 1890. Dearle created patterns like Trent, Daffodil, and Compton, which are often attributed to Morris himself. Displaying a single repeating panel lets you study the balance of intertwined foliage, petals, and background motifs as an independent work of art.