Arts and Crafts Study Day

The Study Day will give you the opportunity to learn more about the Arts and Crafts Movement and about Sir Emery Walker's beautiful riverside home, now a historic house museum and one of London's undiscovered gems. There will also be an opportunity to socialize over refreshments and lunch which are included in the ticket price.

There are 32 places available to hear speakers Helen Elletson, Peyton Skipwith, Alex Werner, Lynne Hulse and Marthe Armitage. Topics will include the collection at 7 Hammersmith Terrace, the revival of interest in the Arts and Crafts, decorative table glass, May Morris’s embroidery and Arts and Crafts wallpaper.

The Study Day is part of the Emery Walker Trust’s fundraising campaign to match fund its Heritage Lottery Funding application. It will also provide an opportunity to learn something about Emery Walker himself, William Morris’s consultant and mentor for the Kelmscott Press. Born in 1851, the son of a Paddington coachbuilder, at the age of 12, Walker bought a seventeenth century book from a rag and bone man in Hammersmith and so started his lifelong passion for typography and printing. Forced to leave school at thirteen and become the main earner for the family when his father went blind, he nonetheless ended up being knighted in 1931 for services to typography and printing.

There will also be the opportunity to have a tour of Emery Walker’s house at 7 Hammersmith Terrace (£12/Students £6).