Valance
- Object Name:
- Valance
- Object ID:
- 1968.016.15
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Window valance or shelf decoration, 19th century. Wool needlepoint on canvas. Multicolored design on three large scallops with tassels in between; design repeated in each scallop. Three rows bright blue border at top, rounded ends with tan stitches, reds, black, green, tan, pale blue in design. Bound all around with vari-colored silk twisted cord. Edged with silk cording. 25" x 8".
Valance or lambrequin. Late nineteenth century needlepoint on canvas or berlin work embroidery with tan, blue, brown, yellow, black, light blue, and green single worsted wool yarns. Embroidered at 12 stitches per inch. Bottom border three scallop edges. Trimmed with a .25" two ply S twist wool core silk yarns in burgundy, black brown, yellow and light blue tasseled passementirie passementirie to border with a tassel between each scallop. Three stylized leaf motifs in the center of each scallop. Ground fabric pressed under, top stitched with running stitches. Fabric remnants along edges of back indicate valance was backed in brown cambric. - Material:
- Textile
Wool
Cotton
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-8.75 L-24.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Mrs. Sarah Stowe, Concord, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sarah Stowe
- Subjects:
- Needlework, Passementirie, Valances, Embroidery, Berlin work
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