Valance
- Object Name:
- Valance
- Object ID:
- 2002.636.01 c
- Date:
- 1830-1850
- Description:
- Window Valance, one of three, 1830-1850. Wool and linen or cotton brocade. Red with cream design. Lined with brown polished cotton. Bottom edge deeply shaped. Edged with braid. 55.5" wide, 35" long at sides, 22" at center. Damask fabric woven with two ply Z-twist undyed cotton warp yarns and Z-twist red silk weft yarns. Lined with a backing of brown cambric. Six piece construction, three pieces of facing, three of backing fabric. Front facing and backing fabric consits of two 8.5"x8.5" triangles seamed to the bottom right and left edges of larger panel forming a point on each side. Gold/pink 1.5" passementerie hand stitched to bottom edges. Selvedges of both fabrics seamed with twill tape in between at top. Seven twill tape loops hand stitched on back lining fabric.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Linen
Wool
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-55 L-35 inches
- Provenance:
- Found in collection in 2002.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Damask, Cotton, Wool, Decoration, Interior, Decorations, Window, Passementerie, Valance, Curtains, Cambric
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