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Description: | white cotton block-printed and resist-dyed, with 2 ovals of poppies and leaves, 2 large 'pine cones' with overlapping scales and trefoils etc; mainly in red, green, ochre, purple, black and white; probably part of a tent lining ('shamiana'), rectangle of 3 pieces hand-sewn together along selvedges, all sides raw; 2 large motifs in centre of a frameless oval formed of red poppies with ochre and purple centres, on brown stems with buds and serrated leaves in green; between the 2 ovals a flower of 8 red petals, purple sub-petals and disc centre with red rings, a serrated curled leaf from the middle of flower pointing inwards, in dull green with brown details, flanked by 2 large 'pine-cones' with green serrated edges, filled with overlapping scales in red, ochre and white, a black spot in each, the top points with a flowerbud and 2 drooping 3 petalled flowers, black outlines and details
label: none,
Accession number: NCM 1889-398/10 | Subjects: | textiles (printed) foreign costume and textiles | Temporal: | 1880-1888 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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