Summer Events Hosted by the William Morris Society
A range of family activities taking place through the holidays
The Coach House, Kelmscott House on Upper Mall
July 15, 2024
The William Morris Society Museum is putting on a range of events over the summer holidays.
As well as a number of family workshops it will be taking part in the Summer Craft Fair for children at Fulham Palace and its exhibition on the Art of Wallpaper continues until 11 August with free entry for Hammersmith & Fulham borough residents.
The workshops take place in the Coach House at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith from 10.30am-12.30pm and will provide an opportunity to create your own book, embroidery, learn how to weave and more. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Places are limited so book your place via the links below. The cost is £7.50 per child per workshop with adults going for free and do not need to book a place.
Friday 2 August - Let’s make a Concertina Book
William Morris had a lifelong interest in the art of book printing and design. A concertina book is an origami-like pop-up book and is so called because the folded structure looks like a concertina, which is a musical instrument like an accordion. Age range: 6-12 years
Wednesday 7 August Annual Children’s Summer Fair 11am – 3.00pm (drop-in)
Join a free fun-filled summer craft fair, featuring Fulham Palace, Benjamin Franklin House, the William Morris Society and Leighton House. With hands-on craft activities from each historic site, offering a variety of creative fun for all ages. Recreate the iconic Strawberry Thief bird with the William Morris society, make peg dolls and Victorian thaumatropes with Fulham Palace and more.
Venue: Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue, Fulham, SW6 6EA.
Friday 9 August - All about Sewing
William Morris’s daughter May was a talented embroiderer so ne inspired by her embroidery designs from the museum’s Collection to create and sew your own designs on a cloth bag. Sharp needles will be used
Saturday 17 August - All About Weaving
There will be one session on paper, making a paper rug, and one session using yarns, ribbons and other materials, in the very location where William Morris weaved his own Hammersmith rugs. Age range: 6-12 years
There will also be a Guided Walk (for adults) on Saturday 3 August at 11am from Hammersmith to All Saints’ Church Putney. This guided walk will end with a tour of the Morris & Co. stained glass at All Saints’ Church Putney. The windows are the most extensive glazing scheme by Morris & Co. in any London church. All Saints’ was a collaboration between the architect George Street (1824-81), Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98) and William Morris (1834-96). The result was a fine example of a late Victorian Arts and Crafts church, with decoratively painted ceilings and beautiful stained glass windows.
In the 1850s, George Street was Morris’s first architectural mentor. Street’s most recognisable building is probably the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in London. This is Street’s only London church with stained glass by Morris & Co. The church was built 1873-74, at the time Morris was living at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, and it was very likely that he would have walked to the church and taken a close interest in the glazing. Burne-Jones lived in Fulham, so would have been more directly involved in the windows than was possible for windows in distant locations.
The walk, which will last around one hour, will be led and narrated by Peter Walker, a member of the Society and keen historian of William Morris. Tickets are £17 (£15 for William Morris Society members) and available to book here.
The William Morris Society exists to make better known the life, work and ideas of William Morris, designer, craftsman, poet and socialist. The Society’s premises are in the Coach House and basement of Kelmscott House, Morris’s Hammersmith home for the last 18 years of his life.
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