Sewing accessory
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1130123.13.1
Summary
One of three needlework embellishments in a flower basket design, in Evelyn's sewing basket; a cardboard base, the basket part of the design is covered with navy blue fabric, with gold metallic thread used to form a grid pattern. The 'flowers' are made up of spheres of different sizes, covered in coloured fabrics, including purples, cerise and gold, satins and velvet. These are interspersed with dark green leaves made up of green fabric tags in between the spheres. The reverse of the basket is covered in many stitches in gold, navy blue and white thread, securing the fabric to the base; required because the blue fabric seems to have been a repurposed fragment, or ofcut.