Bird Wallpaper
Bird wallpaper is one of the oldest and most loved subjects in pattern. Songbirds perched among branches, swooping thrushes, storks and peacocks bring movement and a sense of life to a wall, and they suit a traditional hallway as happily as a modern bedroom.
Morris & Co hold the most famous examples. Strawberry Thief is a playful scene of cheeky birds pecking at strawberries, and Bird & Pomegranate sends elegant birds swooping among branches hung with fruit, both found in Archive II. Sanderson's Woodland Chorus, brought back for the Arboretum collection, perches British birds among the branches, and Harlequin's Persico from Standing Ovation is a pretty study of birds resting on boughs.
For a romantic, chinoiserie feel, Laura Ashley's Volume One includes Eglantine, a classic print of trees and birds. Scion take a lighter, more graphic line with Lintu in Noukku, where little love birds sit among geometric shapes in cheerful colours.
Birds pair naturally with feather wallpaper, fruit wallpaper and chinoiserie wallpaper, and you will find larger scenes among our bird wall murals. For the story behind the most famous of them, read A Morris for Every Home, and for more creatures, A Hare Mid-Leap: Animal Wallpaper.
