The Drawn from Nature collection presents a heartwarming mix of flora and fauna based on wallcoverings, textiles and illustrations from the world-renowned archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). A feast of botanicals and wonderful woodblock prints from the Arts and Crafts era are reimagined in contemporary colourways to bring nature indoors.
Our collaboration with the V&A, the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, stems from a shared love of fine art, textiles and interiors. These fabrics join our first collaboration with the V&A, the Brompton Collection, which features designs from textile patterns from the 16th to the 19th centuries - elegant stripes, exotic birds and floral chintzes - alongside botanical illustrations.

Bird and Rabbit
Printed in Lancashire on 100% linen
Taken from a unique Arts and Crafts pattern in the V&A’s textile collection, this design of woodland animals amid scrolling foliage, loosely based on traditional Indian and Middle Eastern designs, was produced in 1885 by Thomas Wardle, William Morris’ master dyer and textile printer. The original linen textile was used to decorate a book cover.

Willow Bough Large
Printed in Lancashire on 100% linen
Many of Morris’ wallpaper designs were based on the natural world which he studied at first hand. His exuberant designs interweave plants drawn from his own gardens and the wildflowers and trees which he had seen on country walks. This intricate and naturalistic pattern inspired by graceful willow branches was designed by Morris in 1887.