Strawberry Thief

Image credit: William Morris Society

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'Strawberry Thief', one of Morris’s best-known designs, is an eight-colour indigo discharge printed cotton, leaving a white ground, a technique which Morris began to explore and perfected after moving the Morris & Co. premises from Queen Square to Merton Abbey in 1881. Here the convenient premises and soft water gave Morris a fresh impetus and he trained local boys as his staff in a neat and orderly dye-house with the smell of grass and flowers from the surrounding gardens. 'Strawberry Thief' was a design inspired when Morris watched the thrushes in his garden eating strawberries and remains one of Morris's most recognisable and popular designs.

Kelmscott House

London

Title

Strawberry Thief

Date

1883

Medium

printed cotton

Measurements

H 137 x W 94 cm

Accession number

T13

Work type

Textile art

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