Curtain
Category
Textiles
Date
1981
Materials
Silk damask, cotton and wool
Measurements
2330 mm (H)
Place of origin
Sudbury
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 933284.4
Summary
One of four pairs of Great hall damask curtains. Fabric, red cotton warp and weft, damask warp satin ground, plain weave motifs; design, repeat 2005 mm x loom width, formal plant motifs; trimming, red/beige cotton satin weave interlining cotton bumf; structure, hand and machine sewn, edged on three sides with braid drawn with pulley weights, netted and wrapped in red wool 90 mm.