Embroidered wall hanging of St Catherine
Along with painted furniture and murals, another decorative feature of Morris’s first married home, Red House, and later of Kelmscott Manor, was the use of embroidered textiles as wall hangings. Designed by Morris, this representation of St Catherine, is one of an ambitious set of figure panels inspired by classical sources and Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem The Legend of Good Women, which were intended to hang around the walls of the dining room at Red House. The scheme was never completed, but three of the seven surviving panels are now at Kelmscott Manor.