Tieback
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wool, silk and wood.
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 437206.1.4
Summary
One of a pair of curtain tiebacks made of a blue and yellow wool rope terminating at one end in loops, gathered in the middle by a wooden bauble covered in a red silk cord and gold lattice cord, with large hanging tassels at the other end. The tassels consist of a small 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 champagne coloured silk thread and the internal ones are a slightly darker wool thread. This is the left-hand tieback, which is missing one of its tassels.