Some patterns are not meant to be seen all at once. They are meant to be discovered.

William Morris spent his life arguing that beauty and utility were never meant to be separated that the objects we live with daily should be made with the same care and intention as the things we keep behind glass. His botanical patterns, dense with interlocking flora and deliberate symmetry, were not decoration. They were a position on how the world should be made.

Rendered in navy and cream across a jacquard cashmere crewneck, Morris' intricate botanical vocabulary does something unexpected at the scale of yarn and stitch it dissolves. The flowers and branches that read with precision in ink become something closer to texture, to weather, to a landscape seen from a distance. The pattern is still there. It simply asks more of the person wearing it than it does of the person looking.

Part of the MXOL Homage Chapter an ongoing series built around the visual languages of artists whose work deserves to be carried, not just hung.

Material: 100% Cashmere
Gauge: 12GG
Stitch: Jacquard