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Title: The life of William Morris
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945
Subjects: Morris, William, 1834-1896
Publisher: London : Longman, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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think of it, you will find thatyou wont get a garden or a house with much characterunless you go out about as far as the Upper Mall. Idont think that either you or I could stand a quitemodern house in a street: I dont fancy going backamong the bugs of Bloomsbury. Kelmscott House was taken from Midsummer, andthe Morrises moved into it at the end of Odtober.Under his skilful hands, the long drawing-room of whichhe speaks above—a handsome room with a range of fivewindows, filling the whole width of the house and look-ing out through the great elms over the river—had beenmade into a room quite unique in the quietness andbeauty of its decoration. It was sufficiently out of theLondon dirt to admit of being hung with his ownwoven tapestry. The painted settle and cabinet, whichwere its chief ornaments, belonged to the earliest days ofRed House; the rest of the furniture and decorationwas all in the same spirit, and had all the effedt ofmaking the room a mass of subdued yet glowing colour,
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jet. 45) WILLIAM MORRIS 373 into which the eye sank with a sort of adtive sense ofrest. Morriss own study on the ground floor wasseverely undecorated. It had neither carpet nor curtains;the walls were mostly filled with plain bookshelves ofunpolished oak, and a square table of unpolished oakscrubbed into snowy whiteness, with a few chairs, com-pleted its contents. One of the first things he did aftertaking possession of the house was to have a tapestry-loom built in his bedroom, at which he might practise theart of weaving with his own hands. He was often upand at work at his loom with the first daylight in springand summer mornings. Among his few fragments ofdiaries is one which he kept of the first complete piece hewove there. It is headed Diary of work on Cabbageand Vine Tapestry at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith.Begun May 10th, 1879, after Campfield about a weekswork getting in, also after weaving a blue list. A tableof the number of hours spent daily on it follows, up tothe 17th of

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