Fragment
Alice Howsden (fl.c.1900)
Category
Textiles
Date
1900
Materials
Silk, Paper, Wood, Glass
Measurements
480 mm (Length)325 mm (W)
Place of origin
Sudbury
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338394.1
Summary
Five silk tartan samples in a dark wood, glazed frame. Top left – blue background cream lining, fringed edges; top right – blue ground, cream lining, symmetrical squares, fringed edges; top centre – cream background, red & blue stripes; bottom left – larger sample, cream background, blue lining; bottom right – small sample blue ground with white stripes. Woven on the loom by Alice Howsden of Sudbury. Suffolk about 1900. Piece of white paper in bottom left, signed ‘yours, Alice Howsden. On the glass, a piece of white tape with handwriting by Charles Wade reading ‘SILK WOVEN ON THE LOOM IN THIS ROOM BY ALICE HOWSDEN OF SUDBURY, SUFFOLK in about 1900’. In notebook no.4, page 95 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Weaver's Room 10. An Old Sudbury Hand Loom used for weaving fine silks by ALICE HOWSDEN, there is in wall a frame containing samples of her work.' Original backing board in Store.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Alice Howsden (fl.c.1900)
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 95