Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
Title:
Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
Description:
May Morris was an artist, embroiderer, designer, socialist, and suffragist. A daughter of Jane and William Morris, she lived much of her life at Kelmscott House, a major center of the Arts and Crafts movement in England. She managed the embroidery division of Morris and Company, founded by her father. In 1907 she co-founded the Women’s Guild of Arts in response to the exclusion of women from the Art Worker’s Guild. In 1909, while on a lecture tour of the United States, she met New York lawyer and collector John Quinn, with whom she had a short romantic relationship. She presented him with a Kelmscott edition of Amis and Amile, held in her own designed and hand-stitched silk pouch. The book was bound by Katharine Adams in gold-tooled green pigskin in 1894. Adams, her close childhood friend, trained as a binder under Sarah T. Prideaux and established the Eadburgha Bindery in Broadway, Worcestershire.
Creator:
Morris, William (Translator)
Source:
Women’s Guild of Arts Records
Publisher:
Printed by the said William Morris at the Kelmscott Press
Date:
1894
Coverage:
Hammersmith
Display Date:
1894
Hover Text:
May Morris — artist and embroiderer
Katharine Adams — bookbinder
Published Item:
P
Item Index:
7
Item Sort:
Bookbindings
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