A Morris & Co. Hammersmith hand-knotted wool Runner, the design attributed to William Morris c.1880, green field with floral motifs and tendrils in pink, raspberry red, cream and duck egg blue, with a cream ground border of running acanthus leaves and flowering stems predominantly in red and shades of blue, edged with decorative banding, (cut and stitched), 1880s

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A Morris & Co. Hammersmith hand-knotted wool Runner, the design attributed to William Morris c.1880, green field with floral motifs and tendrils in pink, raspberry red, cream and duck egg blue, with a cream ground border of running acanthus leaves and flowering stems predominantly in red and shades of blue, edged with decorative banding, (cut and stitched), 1880s
510cm. x 139cm.

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A runner to the same design, with variant decorative banding is illustrated in situ in the marble hall at No. 1 Holland Park.
See: Gleeson White, an Epoch Making House. The Studio,, Vol XII, No. 55, p.109
See also: Gillian Naylor (ed), William Morris by Himself, London 1988, pl. 231, described p. 324

Morris & Co., in collaboration with Philip Webb and Walter Crane, were commissioned in 1880 to refurbish the Holland Park home of the wealthy industrialist and art lover Alexander Ionides. The greater part of the textiles, carpets and wallpapers used were to Morris's own design, marking a much greater personal involvement in the project than Morris & Co.'s two earlier major commissions - 1 Palace Green for George Howard (later Earl of Carlisle) and Rounton Grange for Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell