Terracotta tile - Dear House - weather proof

The quotation forms a ribbon laid on a design based on William Morris's "Bird" woven wool fabric of 1878.  Morris also wrote poetry and her his words and design are combined into one tile.

The words come from a piece intended for his new house at Kelmscott in Oxfordshire which was embroidered by his wife Jane into the hangings in their bedroom.  William Morris was the driving force behind the emerging Arts and Craft movement in the late 19th century