This design for a carpet is an early design by William Morris, drawn before 1877, after which the Firm moved from 26 Queens Square to Oxford St. The patterns shows a geometric border in white, pale blue and green, with a central panel of scrolling acanthus leaves in blue-green and stylised flowers, with part of a pine cone.
The design is inscribed with the Queens Square address, and ‘Designed for Miss Beardmore’. The pattern was used again for a Hammersmith rug belonging to Dorothy Walker, now in the Emery Walker House (02344). The words ‘Finger Rug’ is crossed out, this was the term Morris gave to small rugs such as these. It is also inscribed No.18.
