Headboard
Category
Textiles
Date
1680
Materials
Cotton, Linen, Silk, Wood
Measurements
1600 mm (Length)860 mm (W)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932682.14
Summary
State bed decorative headboard, fabric, yellow silk as lining (.4); Trimming, tasseled braid 50 mm, yellow and red warp, tarnished metal thread on silk core (holding tassels together), yellow and red silk weft loops, yellow silk wrapped gimp waved, tassels, yellow, black and red silk; Lining, blue linen, plain weave; structure, on wood panel, tacked. (GMM/1998), white cotton satin/sateen; also there is possibly a watered stamped pattern to the blue worsted (?).