Melsetter Archive V wallpaper collection Morris & Co

Melsetter Archive V wallpaper by Morris & Co

The Melsetter Archive V wallpaper collection from Morris & Co gathers dense botanical patterns drawn from the house archive and from the embroidery of May Morris. Leaves curl, stems scroll, and birds or fruit settle into the repeat. Some designs read as fine engraved line work, others as flat block print in two colors, and a few carry a full spread of rust, ochre, teal and red. The scale shifts from small trails that suit a home office to large florals that fill an entry wall behind a console.

Designs in the Melsetter Archive V wallpaper collection

Double Bough wallpaper sets blue gray carnations, cream daisies and pale acanthus on a mottled sage ground, drawn in fine outline. Newill wallpaper runs thin teal vines past owls, pheasants and nests of chicks, and its owl motif comes from an embroidered bedspread of 1905. Apple wallpaper, first designed by William Morris in 1877, wraps curling acanthus around round apples over small willow leaves, cream on gray green. Melsetter wallpaper is based on bed hangings May Morris embroidered for her father around 1893, with birds and flower heads behind a central fruit tree. Seasons by May wallpaper draws on embroidered panels of the seasons, probably by May Morris, with parakeets, roses and tulips under a trellis. Lemon Tree wallpaper pairs lemon trees with fine blossom. Mallow wallpaper is a small scale repeat of mallow flowers. Brophy Trellis wallpaper began as a ceiling paper by Arts and Crafts designer Andrew Brophy. Middlemore wallpaper completes the set.

How Morris & Co Melsetter Archive V wallpaper works in a room

The room shots give you a few ideas. Newill sits above a white chair rail with a blue painted lower wall, which lets the cream ground and teal vines breathe around a light wood desk. Apple covers a kitchen wall next to white subway tiles and a marble counter, where its two colors stay calm. Double Bough holds its own behind dark wood furniture and a herringbone floor. At Selected Wallpapers you will find all nine designs from this Morris & Co wallpaper collection on one page.