Wallpaper design: Poppy

This is a very finished design, with technical annotations, for the ‘Wreath’ wallpaper depicting poppies and acanthus flowers. The V&A already has a sample of the printed wallpaper, as finally manufactured, but in a different colourway. The V&A, which includes the national collection of designs, holds numerous objects and works on paper by William Morris and by the firm of Morris and Company; these include several designs for textiles. This design is later in date and style to the existing holdings and clearly shows a near final stage in the design process before manufacture takes place.