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Collection Item: Bedcover
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Bedcover
- Object category
- Domestic textiles
- Textile crafts
- Object subcategory
- Bed covers and hangings
- Patchwork and quilting
- Creators
- Unknown (Stitcher)
- Description
- A large, block-printed chintz centre-piece is bordered by rectangular patchwork panels, with four smaller block-printed panels at the corners. Multi-coloured, roller-printed dress cottons of the 1820s and 1830s have been used for the patchwork, which is very neatly pieced from diamonds arranged in a chevron pattern. The centre is placed on a strip ground made from four different cotton chintzes: A green stripe, a floral design, and two types of leopard-spot pattern. The bedcover is thinly wadded, and is backed with plain white cotton. It is evenly quilted in white thread, with a large central panel of square diamonds, and a deep border of waves; the latter is enclosed by two narrow chain borders.
- Production date start
- 1820
- Production date end
- 1840
- Period
- Georgian
- Regency
- William IV
- Victorian
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : BA243
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.83
- 2.43
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 10000011
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Chintz (Borders)
- Cotton (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 259.0 cm
- Whole width 263.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Unknown (Stitcher)
- Location
- Unknown
- Technique
- Pieced
- Quilted
- Patchwork
