🔴 William Morris, Father of the Arts and Crafts Movement
at UW-Milwaukee Special Collections
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Today in Labor History March 24, 1834: William Morris, British author, textile designer and revolutionary socialist was born on this date. He wrote the utopian novel “News From Nowhere” and founded the Socialist League in 1874. He was influenced by both Marxism and anarchism.

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"If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all."

So said the Victorian artist William Morris, born on this date in 1834.

9 more things he said:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/03/24-march-william-morris-quotes.html

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Heh. I find a lot of William Morris'/Liberty's patterns on fabrics on Temu. So if you hear wild buzzing accompanied by random screams, all the way from Britain it's Morris rotating in his grave. If we could attach a generator somewhere we'd solve the energy needs globaly for generations to come.

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Snowflake by ComicBookXL

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