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227381001
Description
A wide, rectangular bolster-cover. Multicoloured wool embroidery on a yellow tabby woven wool ground; made from one piece of hand woven fabric. The centre has a predominantly red diamond lattice pattern, framed by a geometic pattern (inner) - worked in white cotton thread and red, blue, green and maroon woollen threads - and an identical diamond lattice pattern, worked entirely in black woollen thread. A black border surrounds the coloured embroidery, and reaches to the long sides of the bolster-cover. There is one row of four black geometric motifs and an outer row of five, worked in blue and red wool yarns. The sides of the cover which remain yellow (at the ends) are not sewn up. The reverse is undecorated with the opening towards one end. The fabric is much brighter (yellow warp/orange weft) on the reverse, suggesting the front has faded through exposure to light. A large, semi-circular darning repair on the reverse beside one long edge, using yellow wool thread. The embroidery has been worked such that the fabric does not lie flat on the front.
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