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Description: | white linen with woven pattern of checks; tamboured with flowers etc in brightly coloured wools, almost square; 2 selvedges, 2 whipped edges; linen with multi-width stripes, lines and bands making checks with pattern of lozenges in the squares so formed; border all round of pink scallops, brown undulating stem with leaves in 2 shades of green, scarlet berries; inner frame of brown undulating stem with roses in red and 2 shades of pink, or in 3 shades of pink, alternate with carnations in 3 shades of blue, all pointing towards the centre; bell shaped and other flowers in mauve, pinkish-grey and shades of blue , on stems with serrated or tongue shaped leaves in 3 shades of green; the stems in each corner tied with ribbon bow of 2 loops and 5 tails; inside corner with carnation, rose, bell flowers, and other flowers in blue-grey and yellow, on branched stem with leaves in 3 shades of green; centre with diaper of sprigs, mainly blue or red; the blue sprigs of 2 crossed curved stems with daises in 4 shades of blue, these sprigs on the warp stripes; the red sprigs of similar stems, one with a rose in scarlet and shades of pink, the other with a blue 5 petalled flower, these sprigs on the lozenge woven squares, Made or collected in Russia
Accession number: NCM 1888-158 | Subjects: | needlework foreign costume and textiles | Temporal: | 1800-1850 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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