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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1701 - circa 1820; Classification(s): embroidery, border or valance, weaving, Linen border or valance made of two joined pieces. Embroidered in red silk in long-armed cross stitch. A large repeat pattern of a flowering branch with confronting birds is worked between borders of a repeated stylized flower or plant motif. The top and bottom edges are finished with a complex buttonhole or needle lace border.; Acquisition: given by Caton-Thompson, Gertrude, Dr, 1982, given by Dr Gertrude Caton-Thompson [T.5.1982]
Description: Linen border or valance made of two joined pieces. Embroidered in red silk in long-armed cross stitch. A large repeat pattern of a flowering branch with confronting birds is worked between borders of a repeated stylized flower or plant motif. The top and bottom edges are finished with a complex buttonhole or needle lace border. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | border or valance Unknown embroidery | Temporal: | name=18th or early 19th century; start=1701; end=1820 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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