The Orchard
Furnishing Fabric
ca. 1910 (made)
ca. 1910 (made)
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Furnishing fabric tissue of silk woven with silks and metal threads. With a large all-over repeat design in four horizontal panels of birds flying in an orchard of fruit trees, at the bases of which are beehives, flanked by sheaves and butterflies. Woven in metal thread and pink and pale grey silks on a mid-blue ground.
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Title | The Orchard |
Materials and techniques | Silk woven with silks and metal threads |
Brief description | Furnishing fabric tissue 'The Orchard' of silk woven with silks and metal threads, designed by Edmund Hunter for St. Edmundsbury Weavers, Great Britain, ca. 1910 |
Physical description | Furnishing fabric tissue of silk woven with silks and metal threads. With a large all-over repeat design in four horizontal panels of birds flying in an orchard of fruit trees, at the bases of which are beehives, flanked by sheaves and butterflies. Woven in metal thread and pink and pale grey silks on a mid-blue ground. |
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Credit line | Given by Morton Sundour Fabrics Ltd. |
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Accession number | T.157-1953 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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