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Description: | white silk machine-made net (single pressed point net?), tamboured in white cotton thread, curved top, sides curved inwards and tapering to scalloped wrist edge; oval scalloped inner and outer edges with loops at points, chevrons of leafy stems springing from berries between, enclosing scalloped ring with lattice filling; from top of oval leafy branches curving to each side and enclosing cinquefoil flowers; from base of oval further curved stems; stems with leaves and 'cable' stems with flowers and pointed leaves; between the branches ring of 'cable' enclosing diagonal ground with leaf sprays above and below; curved wrist edge with scallops of loops, each scallop with a ring of loops each with a flowerhead; diaper of spots to curve of spots with spikes of leaves above; tabs enclosing flowers below; at centre leaf with zig-zag outline, oval with leaves and diagonal filling, spots and zig-zag; remainder of sleeve powdered with spiky leaves
mounted on blue paper with disc of pink silk, cut with hole, behind upper part of sleeve; labels pasted on the blue paper: "Tambour, white, one sleeve only, the pink is an under silk trim - another old sleeve worn",
Accession number: NCM 1907-187 | Subjects: | needlework lace (machine-made) | Temporal: | 1810-1820 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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