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Furnishing Fabric

1987 (made)
Artist/Maker
Warner and Sons (made for)
Sagaert & Spayer (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Belgium (made)

Woven furnishing fabric with the 'Basket Damask' design (Fortrose). Damask point-paper in pale blue and undyed cotton with a design of a basket of flowers alternating with a bunch of flowers in a lattice of fringed material, tied in bows with cord and tassels, with sprays of small flowers.

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Interiors
Object type
Furnishing fabric
Materials and techniques
Woven cotton damask
Cotton (Textile)
Damask Weave
Brief description
Woven furnishing fabric, probably made by Sagaert & Spayer for Warner and Sons, Belgium, 1987
Physical description
Woven furnishing fabric with the 'Basket Damask' design (Fortrose). Damask point-paper in pale blue and undyed cotton with a design of a basket of flowers alternating with a bunch of flowers in a lattice of fringed material, tied in bows with cord and tassels, with sprays of small flowers.
Dimensions
  • Top edge width: 1333mm
  • Bottom edge width: 1325mm
  • Proper right length: 3933mm
  • Proper left length: 3945mm
  • Weight including roller weight: 8.5kg
Credit line
Given by Warner Fabrics
Object history
Registered File number 1988/187.

The design comes from 19th century textiles, with the lattice of fringed material dating back to the 18th century, when in contained not baskets but a vase of flowers and a lyre surrounded by flowers (see: point-paper in the Museé des Beaux-Arts, Tours, No. 17 553-1-2, Mobilier National green silk damask GMMP 1739/5, V&A 708-1864 and T.352-1972, a silk and worsted damask ca. 1840s). As 'Basket Damask', the V&A has two point-papers from the Warner collection T.668, T.668A&B-1972, on paper watermarked 1823 and 1824; and 483-1897, a yellow silk woven by Bailly & Jackson probably in the 1840s. This latest sample has been accepted to show the 20th century version.
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Basket
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.117-1988

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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