Petit point
Category
Textiles
Date
1558 - 1603
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Silk, Wood, Wool
Measurements
880 mm (Length)840 mm (W)
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129431
Summary
A panel of Elizabethan petit-point needlework worked with masks, vases of fruit and flowers with interlaced strapwork and foliage on a brown ground and ten applique needlework flower sprays decorated in colours, in walnut frame. Part of a needlework table carpet with a rose and antickes (as described in Santina M. Levey's book An Elizabethan Inheritance; The Hardwick Hall Textiles'.