Swag tail
Category
Textiles
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Cotton chintz
Place of origin
Lancashire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609646.3.3
Summary
One of eight printed cotton chintz swag tails. 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. Longer length one side (four left side; four right side); hemmed on four sides bordered on shorter side and bottom edge. Tack marks at top edge, lined throughout, hand sewn. 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.