Curtain
Category
Textiles
Date
1973
Materials
Silk brocade and cotton sateen.
Collection
Great Chalfield, Wiltshire
NT 539514.1.2
Summary
Five silk brocade red and gold curtains with raised and embroidered panels on inner edge, remade in 1973. This set displayed in the Oriel window. One of a pair of long dark red damask curtains with decorative borders on both sides. The borders are made of pieces of plain and repp weave beige and cream silk applied to a dark red velvet ground outlined with laid and couched silk and metal wrapped cords forming a repeating design of trailing stems and leaves. The borders on the leading edges have a wide central panel edged on both sides with a narrow panel. The back edges have the narrow panel only. The curtains are lined with cream cotton sateen. The damask is modern (?1970s). The borders of an earlier date.