Swag
Category
Textiles
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Cotton chintz
Measurements
970 mm (Width); 1190 mm (Length); 2300 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Lancashire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609646.2.1
Summary
One of three printed cotton chintz swags. Part of a set of fourteen items of window curtain furnishings. Cotton plain weave, roller printed green; blue; pink-red; yellow; drab; black. Loom width 680 mm, glazed finish. Design; Repeat 350 mm Main ground sprigged flowers, one side border of flowers round pole. Grass green cotton, plain weave glazed. Shorter length at top fanning out to longer straight edge with border at bottom only. Triangular pieces added either side. Hand sewn, lined throughout, tack marks at sides. Made in Lancashire by an unknown printer and professional upholsterer circa 1860.
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.