Strawberry Thief is a repeating textile pattern William Morris designed in 1883 and printed using the indigo-discharge dyeing process at his Merton Abbey works, which he personally supervised through its first printing that May.
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In May 1883 Morris wrote to his daughter, 'I was a great deal at Merton last week ... anxiously supervising the first printing of the Strawberry thief, which I think we shall manage this time.'
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Strawberry Thief is a repeating textile pattern William Morris designed in 1883 and printed using the indigo-discharge dyeing process at his Merton Abbey works, which he personally supervised through its first printing that May.
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