Brocade
Category
Textiles
Date
c. 1900
Materials
Cotton, silk
Measurements
1910 x 970 mm
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1156546.2
Summary
Curtain. One of five crimson silk warp, blue/grey fragments and curtains with cotton weft, warp faced satin ground, unbalanced plant motifs. The lining is red cotton plain weave. Some of the lining is as fragment .1, some are different and there is wadding at the edges. Trimmed with rufflete tape and hooks. The wadding is on three sides, with a gathered heading band at one end, and hand machine and sewn.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.