Terracotta tile - Peacock and Dragon - weather proof

This 1870's textile design was for use in curtains or wall coverings.  Morris taught himself to weave from instruction manuals and from this he learnt to produce complex woollen structures to replicate the effect of medieval tapestries.  Used in Morris' won London home Kelmscott House, the Peacock and Dragon textile drew on medieval influence's and became one of his most successful furnishings