Green & Lavender

Green and lavender creates the William Morris Arts and Crafts botanical textile combination — because William Morris (1834–1896, Walthamstow, London, the most influential British textile designer of the 19th century, co-founder with Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Philip Webb of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. / later Morris & Co. in 1861, designer of more than 50 wallpaper designs and more than 40 textile designs, the most specifically Arts-and-Crafts-botanical and the most broadly 19th-century-design-historically significant single British designer) specifically used the combination of botanical-leaf-green and lavender in his most celebrated textile and wallpaper designs — particularly 'Willow Bough' (1887, the most specifically Morris-authenticated and the most V&A-collection-documented Morris botanical design, featuring the pale-willow-leaf green against the lavender of the botanical-sprig background in the most precisely Arts-and-Crafts-botanical and the most precisely Morris-Merton-Abbey-mill warm-neutral-cool) and 'Larkspur' (1872) — as the most specifically Morris-botanical and the most precisely Merton-Abbey-mill-printed warm-neutral-cool in Victorian British design.

The Victoria & Albert Museum Arts and Crafts collection (V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, the world's greatest museum of art and design, housing the most comprehensive single collection of William Morris & Co. textiles and wallpapers, including the original 'Willow Bough' pattern textile samples, the 'Larkspur' wallpaper, and the most comprehensively William-Morris-botanical green-and-lavender design-historically documented collection in any museum) creates the green-and-lavender warm-neutral-cool at the most specifically V&A-museum-documented and the most comprehensively Morris-Arts-and-Crafts-botanically warm-neutral-cool scale.

The Kelmscott Manor garden tradition (Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, OX18 2LT, England, the most specifically William-Morris-inhabited and the most personally authentic single Morris heritage site — William Morris's summer home from 1871 to his death in 1896, whose Arts-and-Crafts garden features the most specifically Morris-botanical green-and-lavender plantings of the herbs, botanical flowers, and garden plants that directly inspired Morris's most celebrated textile and wallpaper designs) creates the green-and-lavender warm-neutral-cool at the most specifically Kelmscott-Manor-Morris-personally-authenticated and the most directly-design-inspiration-botanically warm-neutral-cool scale.