Tanjil Rashid

William Morris’s debt to Islam

How British really were the artist's designs?

Morris’s residences proudly displayed his hoard of Turkish and Iranian carpets: his dining room at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, photographed by Emery Walker, 1896. © William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest

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