Tieback
Gillows & Co.
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wool, silk, wood.
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 437001.2.5
Summary
One of a pair of curtain tiebacks made of a faded red and gold wool rope terminating at one end in loops, gathered in the middle by a wooden bauble covered in a fraying red silk cord and gold linear cord, with large hanging tassels at the other end. The tassels consist of a small flat wooden bauble, and a larger wooden head, both covered in a red silk cord and gold lattice cord. There is a skirt of thin twisted ropes; the outer ones are made of a red coloured silk thread and the internal ones are a slightly darker lighter, rougher wool thread. There are four additional hanging decorations around the skirt.
Makers and roles
Gillows & Co., furniture maker