Fabric piece
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
Textile
Measurements
1160 mm (H)900 mm (W)
Place of origin
Romania
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349262
Summary
Fabric piece from Central Europe/Rumania made from 3 strips joined together. The central piece is woven black cotton and gold coloured metal thread with narrow stripes of green, purple and yellow. The right hand piece has a rich border design woven in metal threads and coloured cotton with a geometric design bordering a plain maroon cotton fabric. The left hand piece is a narrow strip of plain hard black cotton joined across the centre.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade