How was it made? Block printing William Morris Wallpaper | V&A 

Find out more about this wallpaper design in Explore the Collections: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78222/acanthus-wallpaper-morris-william/

Incredible precision. No wonder it's so expensive.

Fascinating, very labour intensive, beautiful

No one has ever done more beautiful wallpaper, as far as I'm concerned, as did William Morris. Just gorgeous...

Thank you, these shorts are wonderful but they always leave me wanting. Please consider making them of longer duration with more details of the subject.

I love seeing acanthus in design. It’s such a timeless plant.

the end scene with each layer sped up kinda looks like a digital imagine loading, like slowly getting clearer, for some reason that kinda hit me, this is when people were their own computers.

William Morris was incredibly creative. In addition to wallpapers, he wrote fantasy novels that influenced J.R. R. Tolkien.

This explains why certain products are so expensive. What painstaking detail. Beautiful.

That's so cool. It's like a giant stamp! Kudos to these wonderful and respectable artisans of such exquisite and tedious craft 💖

Fascinating. It is so nice his work is still being made in the same way he did it. Beautiful!

One word WOW.

A painstaking process that has been developed over many years... Beautifully crafted wallpaper.. William Morris's designs are evergreen..

I can truly appreciate that sort of work and dedication. Beautiful!

Thank you so much! More Morris content please!

Ahhh thank you! My favourite pattern from my favourite pattern maker! This was such a treat to wake up to down here in Australia. Thank you V&A!

fantastic. morris still is one of the greatest masters of complex repeating pattern designs

Beautiful work from one of the 1st industrialists and also one of the 1st anti-industrialist. Amazing work & history ❤️

My goodness …. The pressure to get it right every single time. I would crack at some point lol! Amazing! I love they still do it this way today. A wonderful art form, thankfully preserved.

Breathtaking work of art.

Beautiful!

Phenomenal artwork. Thank you

Wow. What an amazing result

What a beautiful masterpiece!

Stunning!

Oh that's just friggin' cool. As a watercolor painter I love this and want it for my home.

The craft behind the art. Thank-you for this.

The artist and his art lives on. Exquisite!

Beautiful! Loved the accompanying music as well! ❤

That is so amazing! I love repeating patterns and this is my first time seeing the process of block printing like that. In love!

A beautiful craft ❤️ really enjoyed the background music too

Fun fact: The majority of Morris’s wallpapers are in the greenish range, which was achieved by the use of arsenic. Morris’s family made their fortune in the arsenic business.

Oh wow. Piecework magazine just had an article about May Morris, the daughter of William Morris.

Thank you for uploading. This was quite interesting. Take care, DA

This is mindblowing!!!!

Magnifico!!!

Many thanks for sharing this.

Wow, I can't even imagine how expensive this wallpaper must be. Exquisite!

It's beautiful!

Wonderful!

Magnificent

Love this.

Now i know why morris wallpapper is so expenisive!

c'est trop beau ! ❤❤❤

Willam Morris, the Craftsman

Amazing

Meraviglioso, una grande eredità culturale. Grazie per questo bellissimo video.

que belleza, me encanta el art and craft

fascinating and beautiful!

Simplesmente fantástico 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Beautiful craftsmanship 😍 it must be nerve racking to try and match the original colours

Wowowow 😍

Danke schön!

That's such an amazingly tedious process. God what I would give to see it in person.

Getting the registration right is another aspect altogether besides recreating the colours-they deserve the price tag.

Wow! Exhausting!

Wow that’s really amazing, I love William Morris designs, now I know why the wallpaper is so expensive.

Imagine fun fact and arsenic in the same sentence! That's the beauty of commentary. My takeaway was the mushiness of the stamp pad was made clear. Otherwise the 'ink' could not cover as well.

No wonder it's so expensive. It's a Japanese technique. It's stunning, so beautiful.

OMG … the patience 🙉

Now I know what it's so expensive. It is so beautiful.

No wonder that paper is expensive! Imagine making the blocks

whoah!

oh my!

This actually seems like something a computer would do well, lowering the price point drastically. That said, there’s something extra magical and soulful to doing everything by hand, but if the final product won’t suffer in the process of automation, then it’s certainly an exciting option to consider.

As interesting and informative as this was - and it was, the comment section is as well. Thank you all!

❤❤❤❤love ❤

I’ve always been a fan of William Morris, the Craftsmen artist and art nouveau. All of which are labor intensive. Unfortunately my budget is more Eastlake…

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This prob isnt considered asmr but its what I prefer

I absolutely appreciate the talent and dedication to this craft! My problem with things like this is that only a small elite wealthy portion of the population can afford these products.

This wallpaper should cost millions. Such a labour intensive process.

This must be one of the most emotional and beautiful videos on RU-vid! It literally makes me cry. I am thinking about how it must feel to be able to afford this paper. I am thankful for what I have but if I had the money to buy this paper, I surely would have enough money to support people that don't have that wealth and need support.

Please knock outa 100 rolls for me I’m doing the kids rumpus room and the TV room - sorry couldn’t help that - magnificent work of the printer but more importantly the wood blockcutter/ carver - the unsung hero of the process.

Oh!

Anyone knows the music ?

Are these available for sale somewhere?

I have a very old roll of wallpaper how do I find out how old it is .

Was the paper vintage or made to vintage standards, it looked very period as well?

It's amazing that even though this is a kind of mechanisation of a handcraft, I would guess the product would still have been VERY expensive. Think of four weeks' pay of any worker today for a roll of wallpaper. Beautiful nevertheless.

You wouldn't want just any wall paper hanger putting this on your walls!

윌리엄 모리스 블록 프린팅

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Wonderful video. But tell me about the music. Appropriate and beautiful.

I'm please William Morris eventually substituted the arsenic used in green dyes.

It's the design that you want. Not the tedious labor. Haven't they figured out a modern way to use the block painting?

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House flippers: eww, wallpaper [proceeds to tear it off, paint the wall white, and put up a "live, laugh, love" sign]

My house was built right after the civil war. It had layers of wallpaper over the board walls. I really wish I took pictures of it as I stripped it. The way I described it was a beautiful Paisley leaf pattern that looked like it was a stamped print. I wish it were possible to preserve it at the time, but the layers of glued paper would not allow it. It was truly a fine work of art. I was astonished at how it was designed like that so long ago. Now I know that it was likely applied in the 1800s over lumber cut from the woods surrounding the house on land granted by President Lincoln for service in the Civil War. Below is a link to an unrelated video that I hope reveals the infinite kindness of the Lord to anyone who has a few minutes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qv0rnnUdk-I.html

Ps the women in his life were badasses. Their embroidery work so amazing.

A pressroll would make this in less than 30 seconds.

pff.. insane... i get the impression even in his time this particular design wasnt sold very often.....beautiful, but it has to fit just right in an interior due to the bold and big pattern,,,,must ve been expensive even then

Everyone says it's expensive but they don't say how much it is

All fun and games till you discovered it has arsenic

It's a beautiful design too bad no one can afford HAND PRESSED wallpaper...

how many people died at William Morris' hands

Fucking hell.

I would hope that such master crafts are only used in homes worthy of the art and not the shite "houses" produced en mass today!

......und Diejenigen, die sich die Tapete leisten können, können (meist) nicht das Handwerk und die Arbeit dahinter begreifen.

No wonder wallpaper so damn expersive.