Panel
ca. 1885 (made)
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Embroidered panel. Narrow panel of Anglo-Indian design worked in silks on silk with a 1.5 to 2 inch (3 to 5 cm) border all around of rust-coloured silk plush. The embroidery shows a branching design of leaves and palmettes shaped flowers worked in shades of green, cream, red and pink. There is a narrow border top and bottom of small stylised flowers with a curving stem, these flowerheads are worked in buttonhole stitch whereas the rest of the embroidery is worked in split and long and short stitches in silk on a tussor silk ground. Japanese gold thread has been couched around sections of the design.
The embroidery is worked on a pre-printed silk ground printed with the design in outline at the Leek print works.
The embroidery is worked on a pre-printed silk ground printed with the design in outline at the Leek print works.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered silk in gold thread and silks |
| Brief description | Embroidered silk panel in gold thread and silks, Leek Embroidery Society, England, ca. 1885 |
| Physical description | Embroidered panel. Narrow panel of Anglo-Indian design worked in silks on silk with a 1.5 to 2 inch (3 to 5 cm) border all around of rust-coloured silk plush. The embroidery shows a branching design of leaves and palmettes shaped flowers worked in shades of green, cream, red and pink. There is a narrow border top and bottom of small stylised flowers with a curving stem, these flowerheads are worked in buttonhole stitch whereas the rest of the embroidery is worked in split and long and short stitches in silk on a tussor silk ground. Japanese gold thread has been couched around sections of the design. The embroidery is worked on a pre-printed silk ground printed with the design in outline at the Leek print works. |
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| Credit line | Given by the family of the late Rev. J.F.R. Westlake |
| Historical context | When carrying out research for exhibition on Thomas Wardle at Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester (2009), Brenda King supplied the information that there is a piece with the same pattern in a different colourway and without the plush border at Gawthorpe Hall. (Personal communication by email, 1.06.2006) |
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| Accession number | T.325-1982 |
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| Record created | June 2, 2006 |
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