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Pair of Hangings

1890-1895 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Two identical embroidered hangings, both made of two widths of silk with a seam down the middle. The ground is of apricot coloured silk with a repeating embroidered design of lotus flower heads, acanthus leaves with curving flower stems and branches in peach, pink, blues, greens, silver and grey silk. Borders on each side of the hangings show green twining rose stems with roseheads and bell-shaped flowers in pink and peach. There is evidence of a similar lower border, edged with a barber's pole stripe, on both hangings, although this is now badly worn on each panel. Worked mostly in darning stitch, the embroideries also show running stitches and speckling in their design.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Hanging
  • Hanging
Materials and techniques
Emroidered silk
Brief description
Embroidered hangings, 1890-1895, English; Morris and Company
Physical description
Two identical embroidered hangings, both made of two widths of silk with a seam down the middle. The ground is of apricot coloured silk with a repeating embroidered design of lotus flower heads, acanthus leaves with curving flower stems and branches in peach, pink, blues, greens, silver and grey silk. Borders on each side of the hangings show green twining rose stems with roseheads and bell-shaped flowers in pink and peach. There is evidence of a similar lower border, edged with a barber's pole stripe, on both hangings, although this is now badly worn on each panel. Worked mostly in darning stitch, the embroideries also show running stitches and speckling in their design.
Dimensions
  • T.364 a 1976 length: 2255mm
  • T.364 a 1976 width: 1205mm
  • T.364 1976 length: 2250mm
  • T.364 1976 width: 1207mm
Credit line
Given by Mrs. Edward Barrington Haynes
Collection
Accession number
T.364&A-1976

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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