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Textile

ca. 1775-1785 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Textile of plate-printed white cotton. Printed with a china-blue trailing floral design. Some of the flowers are recognisable as tulips, roses, larkspurs and auricular, and all are fairly naturalistic. Mingled with them are fantastic leaves shaped like long feather fans with lattice patterned centres from which small leaves fan out. The long-stemmed sprays and bunches of flowers are arranged in opposing curves, which spiral upwards, linked by a spray from a bunch below crossing the stems of the bunch above. In one place the join is bound with a ribbon.

There are two repeats of the pattern in the width of the material. There is a selvedge only on the right side, the left side, like the top and bottom, have been cut. None of the pattern is missing at that side, however. The dye has taken better toward the top of this piece than toward the bottom, and at both sides the impression is, in places, imperfect. There are no blue threads in the selvedge of this all-cotton cloth.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Plate-printed cotton
Brief description
Textile of plate-printed cotton, possibly made in Bromley Hall, England, ca. 1775-1785
Physical description
Textile of plate-printed white cotton. Printed with a china-blue trailing floral design. Some of the flowers are recognisable as tulips, roses, larkspurs and auricular, and all are fairly naturalistic. Mingled with them are fantastic leaves shaped like long feather fans with lattice patterned centres from which small leaves fan out. The long-stemmed sprays and bunches of flowers are arranged in opposing curves, which spiral upwards, linked by a spray from a bunch below crossing the stems of the bunch above. In one place the join is bound with a ribbon.

There are two repeats of the pattern in the width of the material. There is a selvedge only on the right side, the left side, like the top and bottom, have been cut. None of the pattern is missing at that side, however. The dye has taken better toward the top of this piece than toward the bottom, and at both sides the impression is, in places, imperfect. There are no blue threads in the selvedge of this all-cotton cloth.
Dimensions
  • Repeat width: 19.25in
  • Repeat length: 21in
  • Length: 28.5in (minimum)
  • Length: 29.1in (maximum)
  • Length: 72.5cm (minimum)
  • Length: 74cm (maximum)
  • Width: 41.5in (minimum)
  • Width: 41.75in (maximum)
  • Width: 105cm (minimum)
  • Width: 106cm (maximum)
Object history
Does not appear in Bromley Hall pattern book, but is similar in style to many textiles from the book. The lattice fillings of the leaves are comparable with T.137-1956, a Bromley Hall textile.
Collection
Accession number
T.29-1966

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Record createdApril 17, 2009
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