William Morris's "Strawberry Thief" was and remains his most popular pattern. Designed in 1883 as a printed textile for curtains and wallcoverings, it was inspired by a scene of thrushes stealing strawberries from the garden at Kelmscott Manor. The initial design had been drawn in the 1870s, but it took ten years to achieve the first successful printing because of the intricacy of the design and Morris's insistence on traditional methods.