Pelmet
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 356326.2
Summary
Textile boxes 18 and 19. Seven pelmets. Textile box 18. A pelmet, on display in SDR. A pelmet, rectangular. Faded lime green silk, water-stained. Several braided shaped panels - see diagram on house card. Stiffened and lined, with webbing header. Tack holes. See also T/664. Textile box 19. A pelmet. Lime green shot silk, lined and stiffened. Decorated with half inch braid in panels. Some braid at edges has been removed. Some tacks in place. Four pelmets. Lime green silk. Lined, interlined and stiffened. Trimmed with half inch gold braid in shaped panel. Two have been shortened and braid removed.
Provenance
Part of the Lothian Collection. The Hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1940 by Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940)