Stool cover
Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell, Lady Labouchere (1908 - 1996)
Category
Textiles
Date
1930
Materials
Silk
Measurements
680 mm (Width); 520 mm (L)
Place of origin
Stanmore
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Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 814556
Summary
Embroidered tight cover to stool. Undyed baste fibre plain weave single canvas embroidered with worsted threads dyed to full range of colours and ivory silk worked in tent stitch diagonal and straight. Floral spray on a beige ground. Cut into at four corners: tack marks on all sides.
Provenance
Labouchere Collection. Embroidered by Lady Labouchere (b.1908) and used at Stanmore, her parents house. Removed c.1960 and replaced by T/029.
Marks and inscriptions
'RKL' (embroidered top right hand side)
Makers and roles
Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell, Lady Labouchere (1908 - 1996), embroiderer