Morris & Co’s rolls and rules
From this page the wallpaper calculator starts on the standard Morris roll with Strawberry Thief, which the firm lists at 61 cm vertical repeat and straight match, plus the 10 cm allowance its own tool adds per length. Change it to your design; each one’s details give width, repeat and match.
Morris & Co’s calculator asks for the widths of all walls added together and assumes leftover part-widths find a use. Here the strips are counted round the room the same way, and the short bits over doors and windows are then fitted into the ends of rolls, rather than nothing being taken off at all.
Big repeats and wide widths
Plenty of Morris designs have long repeats. On a 2.4 m wall Strawberry Thief’s 61 cm makes every length 3.05 m, still three per roll, with little to spare. Enter 2.7 m and the length stays 3.05 m; from 2.96 m upwards it becomes 3.66 m and a roll holds two. The wide Strawberry Thief, 68.6 cm across with a 42 cm repeat, covers the same room in fewer widths: the table sets both side by side. Pick the wide-width size in the roll menu to try any of the broader Morris designs in your own room.
Morris & Co papers in the calculator
A 4 × 3.5 m room with 2.4 m walls, one 762 × 1981 mm door and one 1.2 × 1.2 m window, 10 cm trim a drop, each paper on its own roll. The first one is what the calculator above starts with.
| Paper | Roll | Drop | Drops a roll | Rolls | Area method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry ThiefWidth 52 cm, Vertical Pattern Repeat 61 cm, Match Straight | 52 cm × 10.05 m | 3.05 m | 3 | 10 | 7 |
| Strawberry Thief Wide WidthWidth 68.6 cm, Vertical Pattern Repeat 42 cm, Match Straight | 68.6 cm × 10.05 m | 2.52 m | 3 | 8 | 5 |
Roll sizes, repeats and matches as Morris & Co states them on the pages linked above, checked September 2026. Morris & Co and its product names are its owner's trademarks, used only to describe the products; Meadow Tools is not affiliated with or endorsed by Morris & Co.