Pelmet
Category
Textiles
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Silk
Place of origin
Shrewsbury
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 609648
Summary
Three items of pink silk, tabouret consisting of a pelmet and two bands. As lining on ATT/T/126. Loom width 500 mm (19.1/2'). As trimming on ATT/T/126/A-B. Border of a) one side, turned hem two sides, cut one side. Cut silk sewing threads (purpose ). Border of b) 110 mm from a). Tack marks at sides. Two sides run parallel, one longer than the other. Circa 1900. Octagon, W Ante Rm and Inner Library; 1827 sale catalogue; Pair costly pink-striped silk tabouret French-rod Window Curtains, lined fine scarlet tammy with handsome festoon drapery, trimmed deep Parisian Fringe, borderd with black velvet...1861 inventory 'Pair crimson silk Tabouret curtains draperies etc complete' .
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.