Textile
Object Details
- Date
- 1850–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Unlined bed cover made of two full widths of printed fabric with fringe on four sides. Pattern composed of two stripes: the wider has a parrot holding a nut perched on a curved flowering branch on a blue background 18.5 cm wide and the other, 11 cm wide, a bird with outspread wings perched on a branch of red berries alternating with a ribbon bow. Two groups of stripes are half dropped with one extra narrow stripe plus an additional section of each stripe on left and right to fill full width of fabric.
- possibly made in
- Portugal
- England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Credit Line
- Purchased by donor in Portugal
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Accession Number
- 1974-57-2
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Textile
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave; woven cotton tape with cotton weft-loop fringe (2 cm sections of red wool at 6 cm intervals); attached to 4 sides; note crossed and re-crossed warps
- Dimensions
- H x W (including fringe): 201 x 154 cm (6 ft. 7 1/8 in. x 60 5/8 in.)
- Repeat H x W: 37.5 x 29.5 cm (14 3/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Record ID
- chndm_1974-57-2
Unlined bed cover made of two full widths of printed fabric with fringe on four sides. Pattern composed of two stripes: the wider has a parrot holding a nut perched on a curved flowering branch on a blue background 18.5 cm wide and the other, 11 cm wide, a bird with outspread wings perched on a branch of red berries alternating with a ribbon bow. Two groups of stripes are half dropped with one extra narrow stripe plus an additional section of each stripe on left and right to fill full width of fabric.