Designed by Graham Sutherland, this print was produced by Cresta Silks Limited of Welwyn Garden City in 1947. At that time, the company specialised in printed silk dress fabrics, with some patterns designed by British artists like Sutherland. The practice of inviting artists to design prints for textiles was led by Edinburgh Weavers and Ascher Limited of London in the early 1940s, and increased the production of such goods in post-war Britain. Cresta Silks fabrics were produced for an upper-middle class market, and were sold through mail order as well as their own shops. The company had used block-printing, but after the Second World War screen-printing was introduced which allowed more flexibility with design.