These are free to use and modify. Credit is appreciated.

William Morris's "Strawberry Thief" was and remains his most popular pattern. Designed in 1883 as a printed textile for curtains and wallcoverings, it was inspired by a scene of thrushes stealing strawberries from the garden at Kelmscott Manor. The initial design had been drawn in the 1870s, but it took ten years to achieve the first successful printing because of the intricacy of the design and Morris's insistence on traditional methods.

Free to download and modify. Credit appreciated.

Welcome to more of William Morris's beautiful and classic English Arts & Crafts wallpapers - the best wallpaper designs ever, in my view, and the greatest architectural and decorative art aesthetic style. If you like these, you may be interested in my previous two posts of Morris wallpaper icons.

Here's the second batch of 21 William Morris wallpaper icons.

Proto-fantasy novelist and pre-Raphaelite William Morris is the father of the Arts & Crafts movement (my favorite architectural and decorative style), and his textiles and wallpapers were wildly popular in Victorian homes and today are ubiquitous in yuppie remodels and with set dressers creating interiors of the period (partly because they are probably the best-known designs of the period and are widely available because his company, Morris & Co, is still printing his designs from the original wooden blocks. They were not nearly as widespread as you'd think from tv and movies of recent years though, nor have they ever been affordable enough to be).