One of a set of slip covers for a small chair made of a printed William Morris designed fabric 'Strawberry Thief.' The chair back cover (a) is folded over at the top and seamed on two sides and around the corner at the lower right. The bottom side remains open, although it was stitched previously. The print is centered on the chair back with two birds holding strawberries in their beaks arranged symmetrically on either side of a flower. This same section of the print is centered on the chair seat cover (b). The seat cover is of a rectangular shape with semi-circular cut-outs at the top to accommodate the vertical members of the chair. This cover is unconstructed and apparently was folded under at the front, back, and sides of the chair seat. The edges are hemmed under approximately 3/8' with hand stitching. The printed textile 'Strawberry Thief' features two sets of confronting birds arranged in symmetrical compositions with floral motifs and strawberries. It is an indigo discharge print with a dyed blue ground and a pattern produced by block printing the dyed cloth with bleaching agents and mordants and redyeing in weld and madder to create white, half-blues, red, yellow, pink, light brown, and green (light blue overprinted in yellow). The vertical and horizontal pattern repeats are respectively 20-1/2' and 17-3/4'.* The seat cover includes one horizontal repeat and the chair back cover slightly less than one horizontal repeat, but in neither case is a full vertical repeat seen from any one side. (A full vertical repeat is included in the chair back cover only if both sides of the cover are included since the fabric folds over the top of the chair back and continues inverted on the reverse.) The fabric is cotton woven in extended tabby with two thin warps interweaving with one thick weft. Count: 94 warp ends per inch; 32 weft picks per inch. * According to Parry, the horizontal repeat is 17-1/2', but on this example it measures somewhat larger.