Furnishing Fabric
ca. 1925 (designed and made)
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Furnishing fabric of brocaded rayon and silk with a mink-brown silk warp with a coarser rayon weft in shades of blue/green forming a waved and vertical twill ground. The lower hem has a finely striped crimson, purple, yellow and blue band 7 inches wide formed by a change in the ground weft and the floating of supplementary rayon wefts. Above this a foliate meandering stem encloses a row of three pelicans brocaded in yellow and crimson rayon. The top is turned and hemmed with curtain rings sewn along its length.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Brocaded rayon and silk |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric of brocaded rayon and silk, designed and made by Ruth Vaughan Lodge for Calimala, Great Britain, ca. 1925 |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of brocaded rayon and silk with a mink-brown silk warp with a coarser rayon weft in shades of blue/green forming a waved and vertical twill ground. The lower hem has a finely striped crimson, purple, yellow and blue band 7 inches wide formed by a change in the ground weft and the floating of supplementary rayon wefts. Above this a foliate meandering stem encloses a row of three pelicans brocaded in yellow and crimson rayon. The top is turned and hemmed with curtain rings sewn along its length. |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss Janet Milne |
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| Accession number | T.631-1974 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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