Altar cloth
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Linen
Measurements
1400 mm (length); 455 mm (width)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668903
Summary
A cream linen altar cloth. The top half of this rectangular altar cloth is plain with a heavy (bone) stitched hem and an extra strip stitched across on the back. The lower half is embroidered with cut work motifs of horseshoe shaped parts filled with flowers with an ornate leaf arrangement above it. A chain of openwork holes with a leaf pendant linking these motifs together. The bottom edge is scalloped with looped stitching all around the edge.