Festoon curtain
Context Hand and Power Loom Weavers
Category
Textiles
Date
1986
Materials
Wool
Measurements
3350 mm (H); 2890 mm (W)
Place of origin
Rossendale
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Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171330.2
Summary
Curtain. One of nine festoon curtains in red moreen with woollen bobble fringe woven in 1986 by Context Hand and Power Loom Weavers, Rossendale, Lancashire; fringe by Sindalls (Context yarns); the curtains were copied exactly from a single survivor, thought to be one of those shown in Hester Leeke watercolour and subsequent 19thc photograph.
Makers and roles
Context Hand and Power Loom Weavers, manufacturer