Batt
Furnishing Fabric
ca. 1880 (made)
ca. 1880 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Furnishing fabric of figured silk satin. With plain weave at the top and bottom and three colourways in emerald and olive green replacing the black, pink replacing the cream silk, and tried near the top.
The design in deep pink-red, black and cream is of interlocking rectangles, alternately with a cream ground with a bat, moon and star, or bird and sun, or red ground with a spray of flowers which overlaps the adjacent scenes.
The design in deep pink-red, black and cream is of interlocking rectangles, alternately with a cream ground with a bat, moon and star, or bird and sun, or red ground with a spray of flowers which overlaps the adjacent scenes.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Batt |
| Materials and techniques | Figured silk satin |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric 'Batt' of figured silk satin, possibly made by Daniel Walters & Sons or Warner and Sons, England, ca. 1880 |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of figured silk satin. With plain weave at the top and bottom and three colourways in emerald and olive green replacing the black, pink replacing the cream silk, and tried near the top. The design in deep pink-red, black and cream is of interlocking rectangles, alternately with a cream ground with a bat, moon and star, or bird and sun, or red ground with a spray of flowers which overlaps the adjacent scenes. |
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| Credit line | Given by Warner and Sons |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.168-1972 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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