Not currently on display at the V&A

Furnishing Fabric

1915 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Silk velvet woven with three heights of pile. The pattern, in crimson and white on a gold-coloured ground, consists of lobed pines and stems, based on 15th-century Italian velvets.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Silk velvet
Brief description
woven, 1915, British; Warner, Frank for Warner & Son. Three pile velvet
Physical description
Silk velvet woven with three heights of pile. The pattern, in crimson and white on a gold-coloured ground, consists of lobed pines and stems, based on 15th-century Italian velvets.
Dimensions
  • Length: 125in
  • Width: 24.5in
  • Diameter: 157mm
Marks and inscriptions
'invented, constructed, and coloured by Frank Warner and patented in 1914 / woven at Braintree by W. Watson in December 1915' (On label)
Credit line
Bequest of Sir Frank Warner
Object history
Registered File no. 1930/10247.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.163-1930

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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