Illustration & The Environment

Date:

May, 2021

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Strawberry Thief, 1883, William Morris (1834-1896) V&A Museum no. T.586-1919 Techniques - Indigo-discharged and block-printed cotton Place - London, England Dimensions - Height 60.5 cm, Width 95.2 cm Strawberry Thief is one of William Morris's most popular repeating designs for textiles.[1] It takes as its subject the thrushes that Morris found stealing fruit in his kitchen garden of his countryside home, Kelmscott Manor, in Oxfordshire. To print the pattern Morris used the painstaking indigo-discharge method he admired above all forms of printing. v2-7a65e10564838ef47de91c2bd8ef307f_1440w.jpg Strawberrythief.jpeg v2-28daa35c83538bbc0d0e4af73c0bbd9f_1440w.jpg 屏幕快照 2021-05-17 下午11.45.38.png v2-0d6da01d634cb55df1bfb1d5c2a9c285_1440w.jpg 屏幕快照 2021-05-17 下午11.47.51.png