Beautiful cushion cover hand finished in england with a luxurious british velvet back this design was produced by morris amp co at merton abbey surrey in 1883 the intricate design was created by william morris and was inspired by a real life problem one which is familiar to many gardeners in his garden at kelmscott manor morris tried to grow strawberries but found that these were always being eaten by greedy thrushes who managed to creep under the netting morris allowed them to do s