More musings from Member 7432, Sweden’s sole member of the William Morris SocietyDear Readers,The other week I found myself at an antiquarian book fair in Stockholm. I was looking for something Morris, but found a 500 year old German book instead. Suddenly I understood the book collector William Morris more and his intense love for handcrafted manuscripts and getting back to the roots in bookmaking. Here it all was: hand pressed paper, the best ink possible and a lovely, timeless sense of…
The Archivist on the Arts & Crafts Hammersmith Project, Michele Losse, has been working over the past few months, along with some fantastic volunteers, on a project to catalogue the archive at Emery Walker’s House. In this blog Michele discusses the project and some of the exciting finds in the Papers of Sir Emery Walker, Engraver, Photographer, Printer, Typographer… Michele Losse, Project ArchivistAs part of the Heritage Lottery Fund funding for the Arts and Crafts Hammersmith Project, we’ve…
Hello again!This is Petter, the one and only Swedish member of The William Morris Society.In my last blog I wrote about how my parents introduced me to William Morris. This got me musing on other British cultural icons when I was growing up and ways they connected to Morris.My first real lesson in English came from The Beatles, you know: “Hello, Goodbye” and “Yes It Is”; what more do you need? ”Why don’t we do it in the Road” was another favourite.Question: did the Beatles have any deeper…
Meet Petter Eklund. Petter is Sweden’s only member of The William Morris Society.Dear Reader,My name is Petter Eklund. I’m the proud member 7432 of The William Morris Society which I joined quite recently. I’m living and working as a freelance writer in Stockholm, Sweden and I am, right now, the only Swedish member of the society. Becoming a member, I started to order quite a few of the society’s wonderful small books of The Kelmscott lectures. They seem to come directly from some wunderkammer…
