William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with Englands Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets and championed handcraftsmanship, natural dyes, art for all, and beautiful patterns of subtly stylized natural forms.This richly illustrated book offers a suitably beautiful introduction to Morriss colorful life and all aspects of his design work, including interiors, tiles, embroidery, tapestries, carpets, and calligraphy. Though best known in his lifetime as a poet and author, it is these exquisite designs that secured Morriss posthumous reputation. As page after page dazzles with their beautiful patterns and forms, we explore the pioneering craftsmanship and natural motifs that inspired them, as well as Morriss remarkable cultural legacy, through British textiles, Bauhaus, and even modern environmentalism.