The song thrushes that grace William Morris’s Strawberry design have been stealing hearts as well as berries since 1883. One of the most iconic Morris & Co. patterns of all time our interpretation is reimagined and expertly recolored. Printed in England on 100% cotton satin cheeky birds perch on bowing branches pecking at invitingly plump strawberries. Strawberry was first registered as a design in May 1883. A printed cotton textile its rich indigo background was the result of William Morris’s scholarly research and experiments in the alchemical art of vegetable dyeing at his Queen’s Square workshops. Reputedly William Morris’s gardener the thrushes at Kelmscott Manor for their rascally invasion of the family’s fruit patch yet the wild.