Tea cosy
Category
Textiles
Date
circa 1911
Materials
Cotton, canvas, cord and wadding
Measurements
390 x 295 x 30 mm
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1154046
Summary
Tea cosy. An embroidered tea-cosy in Florentine baggello or flame (side one shows the design on a larger scale that on side two). Cotton dyed to shades of red, green, blue to ivory and black, straight stitched. Trimmed with three-strand twisted black silk / cotton cord. Lined with red cotton, satin weave, hand sewn over wadding.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973