May Morris sitting at an embroidery frame in her home, 8 Hammersmith Terrace. The walls are decorated with Morris & Co. ‘Apple’ wallpaper and the curtains made of ‘Bird and Anemone’ printed cotton. May moved to Hammersmith Terrace, which was not far from her parents home Kelmscott House, on her marriage to Henry Sparling in 1890. She ran the Morris & Co. embroidery department from here until her father’s death in 1896, when she left the firm to pursue her private commisions and work. Although May was divorced from Sparling in 1894 she continued to live in the house until 1923 when she moved full time to the Morris’s country home, Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordhsire.
