William Morris was born in 1834 into a wealthy family in a town in East London. His passing through the University of Oxford, where he studied architecture, art and religion, would mark his personal life and work enormously.

It was in his student days that he met the ideas about rejecting industrialization and returning to the trades of John Ruskin; Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown or the neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb; or develop his literary interest in poetry with the Birmingham Setwith William Fulford, Richard Watson Dixon, Charles Faulkner and Cormell Price.

Britain’s medievalist movement in the second half of the 19th century was a form of romanticism that rejected many of the values ​​of Victorian industrial capitalism as opposed to an era with strong chivalric values ​​and an organic, precapitalist sense of community. Influenced by the medieval architecture of the city and in a context of growing romanticism and medievalism in Europe, Morris would build all of his artistic discourse and practice around the values ​​of this time.

"Acanthus Leaf" (1875), acanthus leaf is undoubtedly the most important representative decorative pattern in the West, whether it is Baroque, Renaissance or Gothic. Acanthus leaves grow in the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe. They have an elegant curling posture and symbolize family harmony. Even though the print "Acanthus Leaf" is a two-dimensional design work, Morris still uses realistic techniques to achieve a strong layered effect through color changes of different elements. The whole picture is full of life and rhythm, creating a modern Another first for pattern design.

'Willow Bough' is one of William Morris's most enduring wallpaper designs, in continuous production since 1887.The pattern consists of willow branches that form a diagonal branch pattern over the plain background.