William Morris icons part 3

[cimorene]

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.

All of these icons are free to use, modify, and share. Credit is appreciated, but not required.














1-8: Bird and Pomegranate 9: St James
10-14: St James 15: Leicester
16-20: Leicester 21: Pink and Rose
22-33: Pink and Rose

I love all of these, but Leicester is my favorite (it only has a couple of colorways, which is why it isn't the most represented!). Pink and Rose is a stunning chintz, so some credit goes to Dutch and Indian textile artists and the Mughal dynasty artists who developed that distinctive style of decorative painting on which it is based.

Comments

[senmut]

You make amazingly crisp icons from these wallpapers! So very nice.

[cimorene]

Sharpening is the biggest thing I have to do when shrinking them down.

[brownbetty]

I really love that one type of leaf that always gets stylised in that particular way in the Arts & Crafts/Art Nouveau/Beaux Art movement, although the name escapes me at the moment? This is lovely, and I would love to take some as icons next time I get my act together.

[cimorene]

Acanthus, like Corinthian columns!

[cimorene]

(Which is of course its aesthetic lineage, via Italian Renaissance motifs.)

[brownbetty]

Yes, thank you! I knew the name, but could only remember that it started with A. IDK, I think it's really intereseting that at one point the romans were like "this is the best plant for ornamentation" and 2000 years later, here were are.

[cimorene]

Yes, especially because they don't really look that much like that! Where would we be if Corinth had seized onto - (checks Wikipedia) - saribus rotundifolius, or the footstool palm, instead?

[brownbetty]

I mean, I guess we have <3 to show that sometimes a culture seizes on a random thing as an aesthetic ornament and then stylizes it until it doesn't resemble the thing anymore.

[nyctanthes]

These are beautiful. I snagged a couple and will credit. I'm really enjoying your art/icon project. :)

[cimorene]

Thanks!