Writing folder
Category
Costume
Date
1900 - 2000
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349476
Summary
Chinese embroidered writing ? folder. The front of the folder has a central panel of embroidered cream satin and a border of rough silk damask fabric with wefts dyed in stripes of blue and grey on a black ground. (see SNO.TC.743). The back and spine are of royal blue ribbed silk and the inside is of gold card stamped with a geometric design. The silk is embroidered with a design of flowers and butterflies worked in shades of blue and silk covered wire cord. The folder is egded with woven braid of black and gold silk. It could be a writing folder.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade