Pattern Catalogue

This is the full catalogue of Imperial Fruit Thieves — an ongoing series, and an ongoing education.

Each pattern documents a territory colonised by the British Empire through the species its occupation damaged or destroyed: birds now endangered or extinct, plants cleared or exploited for plantation monocultures, ecosystems that have never recovered, cultural meanings erased. The format is William Morris's iconic Strawberry Thief, turned back on the colonial wealth that produced it.

I'm adding to this as I learn. Each edition begins with research into a region's ecology, its colonial history, what was taken and what remains. Some of that research is documented here too, visually processed and catalogued.