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Collection Item: Bedspread
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Bedspread
- Object category
- Domestic textiles
- Textile crafts
- Object subcategory
- Bed covers and hangings
- Patchwork and quilting
- Creators
- Unknown (Stitcher)
- Description
- Bedcover of crazy patchwork, made up of eight long strips of crazy work, in silk, velvet, cotton and wool. These include dress silks and furnishing fabrics, as well as ribbons and shirtings. The pieces are all stitched with yellow and green thread, and these colours have also been used for the embroidered wheatsheaves and trailing foliage which are worked on each patchwork strip. The strips are separated by narrow bands of chevrons made from folded silks, cottons and wools. There is a thick wadding, and a backing of thin purple and white printed silk. The cover is edged with a broad ribbon frill, in rainbow shaded colours, and the four corners of the frill are embroidered with floral motifs.
- Production date start
- 1880
- Production date end
- 1900
- Period
- Victorian
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : BA607
- Alternative number
- 65.75
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.8313
- 2.43
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 10008820
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Silk (Part)
- Brocade (Part)
- Velvet (Part)
- Wool (Part)
- Ribbon (Trim)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 262.0 cm
- Whole width 218.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Unknown (Stitcher)
- Location
- Stamford
- Technique
- Pieced
- Patchwork (crazy)
- Embroidered
