Cover
1870-1899 (made)
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Cover of plain woven linen embroidered with silks and edged with lace.
1931 Description: coloured silks on linen. Satin and double running stitches. Border all round of alternately large and small vases containing flowers, separated by small sprays. Birds perch on the flowers. colours: pale blue-green, crimson and pale yellow. The cover is edged with a border of lace in the Flemish manner of the 18th century.
Notes (1997): The ground is a plain weave light brown linen with one broad and two narrow stripes of slightly darker brown (this colour variation is not part of the pattern). There are 58 threads per inch in one direction (warp?) and 54 per inch in the other (weft?); it is not possible to see the selvedges. The edge of the fabric has been oversewn with blue silk and the lace has been attached with red silk. The embroidery has been worked with floss silk in red, light yellow and light blue. There are equal amounts of thread on the back and the front.
1931 Description: coloured silks on linen. Satin and double running stitches. Border all round of alternately large and small vases containing flowers, separated by small sprays. Birds perch on the flowers. colours: pale blue-green, crimson and pale yellow. The cover is edged with a border of lace in the Flemish manner of the 18th century.
Notes (1997): The ground is a plain weave light brown linen with one broad and two narrow stripes of slightly darker brown (this colour variation is not part of the pattern). There are 58 threads per inch in one direction (warp?) and 54 per inch in the other (weft?); it is not possible to see the selvedges. The edge of the fabric has been oversewn with blue silk and the lace has been attached with red silk. The embroidery has been worked with floss silk in red, light yellow and light blue. There are equal amounts of thread on the back and the front.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered linen with silks, edged with lace |
| Brief description | Cover of plain woven linen embroidered with silks and edged with lace, possibly made in Guatemala or Mexico, 1870-1899 |
| Physical description | Cover of plain woven linen embroidered with silks and edged with lace. 1931 Description: coloured silks on linen. Satin and double running stitches. Border all round of alternately large and small vases containing flowers, separated by small sprays. Birds perch on the flowers. colours: pale blue-green, crimson and pale yellow. The cover is edged with a border of lace in the Flemish manner of the 18th century. Notes (1997): The ground is a plain weave light brown linen with one broad and two narrow stripes of slightly darker brown (this colour variation is not part of the pattern). There are 58 threads per inch in one direction (warp?) and 54 per inch in the other (weft?); it is not possible to see the selvedges. The edge of the fabric has been oversewn with blue silk and the lace has been attached with red silk. The embroidery has been worked with floss silk in red, light yellow and light blue. There are equal amounts of thread on the back and the front. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Alfred Percival Maudslay, Esq. |
| Production | All the materials used would have been imported into Guatemala or Mexico. Krystyna Deuss, Director of the Guatemalan Indian Centre, London (personnal communication 1991) 'not Mexcian'. |
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| Accession number | T.55-1931 |
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| Record created | August 7, 2000 |
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