Archive II wallpaper collection Morris & Co

Morris & Co Archive II wallpaper with birds, fruit and flowers

Archive II wallpaper from Morris & Co brings back botanical patterns drawn with clear outlines and filled with flat color. Birds peck at strawberries, carnations climb upward, and pomegranates split open to show their seeds. The grounds shift from deep red to warm beige to a pale blue green, so the same drawing style can read dark and close in one room and light in the next. Some designs are dense and small in scale, while others send their stems across the whole wall.

Strawberry Thief, Bird & Pomegranate and more Archive II wallpaper designs

Strawberry Thief wallpaper is a William Morris design with mirrored pairs of birds among strawberries and leaves, shown in cream, green and gold on dark red and offered in five colorways. Morris also drew Pink & Rose wallpaper in 1890, with roses and carnations winding up green stems on a beige ground. Bird & Pomegranate wallpaper dates from 1926, one of the last block printed designs from Morris & Co, with small birds among thin branches and pomegranates on pale blue green. Larkspur wallpaper floats small flowers between spiraling leaves over a dotted ground, a design Morris revised in 1875. Chrysanthemum wallpaper, from 1877, takes its look from Japanese leather paper. Leicester wallpaper was drawn by John Henry Dearle in 1912, with curving leaves and medium sized flowers in dark and light colorways. Acanthus wallpaper rolls large leaves across the wall in layers, and Daisy wallpaper keeps things simple with daisies and ranunculus drawn in a naive hand.

Where Morris & Co Archive II wallpaper works in your home

The darker grounds suit rooms with painted woodwork and a fireplace, where a red pattern like Strawberry Thief wraps the walls and catches the low sun. The paler designs open up a hallway or landing, and Bird & Pomegranate sits well beside dark wood furniture and green ceramics. Pink & Rose has a vertical repeat that draws your eye upward in a bedroom. At Selected Wallpapers you can see all eight designs from Archive II by Morris & Co together and compare their colorways.