CHARLES RUPERT
DESIGNS LIMITED
www.charles-rupert.com
A Canadian company dedicated to stocking hard-to-find historic wallpaper, tiles,
fabric, small furniture, accessories and reference books for people who are trying to
restore heritage or character homes, or for people who simply like traditional style. From
their first black and white two page catalogue with cuttings of wallpaper tucked in it,
they have grown to being a major supplier of William Morris and Arts
and Crafts wallpapers and fabrics. They now have an on-line catalogue with full sample cutting service for
all wallpapers and fabrics.
THE ARTS & CRAFTS
HOME
www.achome.co.uk
The Arts & Crafts Home
provides a complete home furnishing service, from a fork to a dining table
to a whole house. They specialize in
the finest replicas of the greatest designers of this period and supply
Gothic Revival and Aesthetic designs also. They also
manufacture and supply the designs of William Morris, Voysey, Mackintosh,
Dresser, Godwin, Pugin, De Morgan and Knox. You can also sign up to
receive their email newsletter.
THE ZSOLNAY TILE MUSEUM
www.drawrm.com/ztilemus.htm
Displays the complex range of artistic tile production of the Zsolnay factory, a leader in
industrial ceramics production throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The tiles make
great desktop images (for PC's using Windows 95 and a graphical browser such as Netscape
or Internet Explorer, right-click on any of the tiles shown, choose 'Set As Wallpaper' --
if your image is not centered right-click on the desktop, choose 'Properties' and under
'Wallpaper, Display' choose 'Center' to adjust the position of the image).
J.R. BURROWS & COMPANY HISTORICAL-DESIGN
MERCHANTS
www.drawrm.com/ztilemus.htm
Visit the site of the carpet supplier for Kelmscott Manor (the Oxfordshire
country home of William Morris) and view images of some of the Morris & Co. patterns
still in production, as well as those by Candace Wheeler and C.F.A.Voysey. Based in
Massachusetts, this specialist decorative furnishings supplier offers Arts & Crafts
wallpaper, fabric, and traditional loomed carpeting through mail order. Work your way
through the extensive site to the Victorian
Events Calendar for information on Morris, balls and vintage dance programmes,
concerts, exhibits, lectures, symposiums, summer schools, and tours. The Founders of the Arts & Crafts Movement 1870 -
1900 link provides a compilation of writings on interior design by Morris and his
contemporaries, including lectures and book chapters from the 19th century that are not
widely available today. This anthology, intended for students and people interested in a
more in-depth understanding of Morris and his contemporaries, also provides information
about the early years of the Arts & Crafts Movement in England and America.
PENDLETON WOODWORKS
www.pendletonwoodworks.com/index.html
Furniture and lighting created in the Arts and Crafts style.
VICTORIANA: RESOURCES FOR VICTORIAN LIVING
www.victoriana.com/index.html
There are dozens of sites within this website, such as articles from the
19th-century major American weekly periodical, Harper's Bazar Magazine
(which proclaimed to combine "the useful with the beautiful").
THE JOURNAL OF PRE-RAPHAELITE STUDIES
www.yorku.ca/jprs
The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies publishes
semi-annually in the Spring and Fall studies of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic, and Decadent
art, culture, and literature of the nineteenth century.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF CANADIAN MUSEUMS AND
RELATED INSTITUTIONS
www.chin.gc.ca/Museums/Cma/e_cma.html
The Canadian Museums Association's comprehensive national listing of non-profit museums
and related institutions in Canada. You can search for information on museums and
galleries either by name, city or province, or by collections.
PROJECT GUTENBERG E-TEXTS
http://promo.net/pg/index.html
Literature in the Public Domain is being converted into readily available plain text for
downloading into home computers. Download whole books into your computer, open them
into your word processor, and search for particular phrases or words. Examples of the type
of literature found on this site include Morris's A Dream of John Ball, A King's
Lesson, Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, and The Well at the
World's End, a Tale, Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, and
John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. Completely searchable by author, subject, or
title.
THE ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT REVIEW
http://pw1.netcom.com/~shura/main.html
An eclectic guide to recently (and not so recently) published articles and books on the
Arts & Crafts movement. Contains annotated articles that have appeared recently in the
popular press, as well as period pieces which may be of interest for further background on
the Arts & Crafts movement. Also provides reviews and news about upcoming books.
JULIAN SHER'S NEWSPAPERS ON-LINE
www.journalismnet.com/papers.htm
Read the Arts sections of numerous papers around the world. Can be searched by
country.
ARTISTS IN CANADA DATATBASE
www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Research_Ref/Reference_Info/AICH/e_hp_aich.html
The Artists in Canada database identifies the location of documentation files on
Canadian artists. Libraries and galleries across Canada have contributed biographical
information and lists of their holdings to create this union list. Accompanying the name
of each artist are the names of the institutions that have a file on the artist.
ADAM: The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
adam.ac.uk/adam
ADAM (a 'virtual library' of digital art, design, architecture and media resources)
provides a searchable on-line catalogue describing Internet resources such as web sites or
electronic mailing lists, in much the same way as a library catalogue describes
bibliographic resources such as books and journals.
NEW BOOKS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH STUDIES
www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/19c/newbooks.html
Complete publication information for scholarly works on the British Romantic and Victorian
periods, and publishers' descriptions for new and forthcoming critical works, anthologies,
and critical editions of nineteenth-century British materials.
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE CRITIC: Contemporary Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelites From
1849-1900
www.engl.duq.edu/servus/PR_Critic/
Focuses on the critical reaction to the Pre-Raphaelites themselves.
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
www.harbourfront.on.ca/
A non-profit cultural organization in Toronto, Ontario which supports
contemporary artistic Canadian talent.
WILLIAM MORRIS GALLERY WEBSITE
www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg
Visit this site for information on the history and collections of this important
gallery in London, England.
THE WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY WEBSITE
www.morrissociety.org
This very comprehensive site, maintained by the William Morris Society (US), is
the official website for both US and UK societies. It lists past and upcoming US events,
UK events, and other worldwide announcements. (For events in Canada
be sure to check the listing on this Website)!
SELECTED POETRY OF WILLIAM MORRIS
library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
The University of Toronto has compiled a database of Morris’s poetry, easily
searchable by first line, by date, or by keyword. Search by poet to access over a dozen of
Christina Rossetti’s poems.
THE ARTS & CRAFTS SOCIETY
www.arts-crafts.com/acsmain.html
This site deals primarily with the present-day Arts & Crafts
community, and maintains an Events Calendar — conferences, shows, exhibits,
tours, auctions, symposia and lectures. The Archives link is a searchable bibliography of
Arts & Crafts resources (including images), and the Forum allows you to discuss
related topics with experts, researchers, and collectors.
VICTORIAN PAINTERS AND ILLUSTRATORS (Bob Speel's Homepage)
www.speel.demon.co.uk/
Where to see 19th-century art in England.
THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
fmc.utm.edu/nvsa/
Provides a VERY extensive list of Victorian
websites as well as announcements of Calls
for Papers and conferences from numerous sources.
THE VICTORIAN WEB
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
From Brown University, this interdisciplinary resource deals with many aspects of
Victoriana, divided under headings such as Social Context, Economics, Religion,
Philosophy, Literature, Visual Arts, Science, Technology, Politics, and Gender Matters.
Plenty of information on Morris
and related subjects here.
THE VICTORIA RESEARCH WEB JOURNAL GUIDE
www.indiana.edu/~victoria/journals.html
Get published! The Victoria Research Web from Indiana University, is just one of
many sites which has compiled contributor and subscription information and online
resources for some of the major journals in the field. This page links to information on
numerous publications, for example Journal of Victorian Culture, Nineteenth
Century Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Poetry, and Victorian
Studies and it explains how to subscribe and submit manuscripts. From this, connect to
the Victoria Research Web, a
guide assisting scholars working on Victorian topics. You’ll find out how to locate
books, periodicals, and newspapers, with tips for researching in Britain. An anthology of
syllabi and text suggestions has been compiled by teachers of 19th-century British history
and literature.
WORDS OF ART
www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fiar/glossary/gloshome.html
If you’re not up-to-date on the latest words, definitions, and theories, look it up
on this on-line glossary of theory and criticism for the visual arts by Okanagan
University College in British Columbia.
NEW ON-LINE DISCUSSION GROUP ON MORRIS
www.egroups.com/group/WilliamMorris
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