Not only beautiful, but with an interesting story.
For me, there's more to an evaluation of this item and its use as a table runner. The design has a long and illustrious history, one which I had no idea about until a couple of months ago. My reading group at the local library has a book discussion group and we recently had to read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a book about two talented young people who ended up as video game designers, something I'd never done. In the book, the two visit the young man's mother in Tokyo and she has a footstool covered in a fabric with a distinctive design. The mother explained that the design was made by an Englishman named William Morse, a textile designer born in 1834. That's a long time ago. The design is called, "The Strawberry Thief," and is named for a bird that used to come and eat the strawberries in his back yard. I bought a table runner for our book discussion and passed it around the group, with the permission of our coordinator. After the discussion, she naturally assumed that I'd bought it for her, so I came home empty handed. I ordered two more, one for me and on for my wonderful sister in law in England. She looked William Morris up and there's a William Morris there in Southern England. If you buy this table runner, a rather inexpensive item, you'll not only have an attractive table runner but a conversation piece. Hopefully you'll have someone to bore with the story.☺ I have a Spanish tutor online in Cuernavaca that I pay $10 an hour to listen to me talk about anything in the world I wish to talk about, all in Spanish. How special is that? If you buy this table runner and want more information about William Morris, the designer, you can go to Wikipedia where there are thirty pages of information. If I had just a bit more money, I'd buy it for you myself.