B & L - smaller pair
1932

Winchester pair of curtains from Fell Dining Room, Girton College, Cambridgedesigned by Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, hand blocked and discharge printed indigo on a natural coloured linen ground, repeat 9 x 6 1/2 in or 23 x 16 cm wide, red cotton tape edgings, each curtain 9 ft 4 in x 5 ft 4 in or or 2.84 m long x 1.63m bottom width. Top gathered width 4ft 3 in or 1.3 m. The pelmet is shaped with inverted V's and bound with red cotton tape, 10 in or 26 cm deep 7 ft 11 in x 2.42m long.

Comments

These could be unpicked, the edges removed, cleaned and then lined and interlined. They would look marvellous. We can do all this for you. ask for quote. If a museum wanted to purchase they may want to conserve them. The red edging braid is carpet edging, but absolutely original. The width of the fabric is 36 in or 90 cm. The fabric width is 36 in or 92 cm. See: ARTICLES

Condition

Curtain 1: The right hand side (leading edge) has a 34 in or 88 cm very bad vertical tear with some of the fabric missing. Curtain 2: Also has a bad vertical tear to its leading edge 24 in or 60 cm. If 5 inches or 13 cm width were removed from both curtains they would look good. There is some fading in stripes to both curtains. The pelmet is edged with a different red braid to the curtains, but this is original. There is one little brownish mark to the fabric. The coarse hopsack type lining has sun damage.

Price: on request