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Crewel woolwork
mid 18th c

Beautifully designed flowers and colours. This would have originally been a bed hanging. Would look good mounted on a stretcher and framed or just as a hanging.

Cataloguing

embroidered in wools with various sized flower sprays in vases in shades of pink, blue, yellow, green all on a fine linen ground, 6 x 3 ft or 1.85 x 90 cm

Condition

There is rust mark to the very bottom edge of the piece. The piece could be slightly shortened top and bottom to remove this. Otherwise in very good condition apart from slight linen discolouration in parts. Ask for photos. For similar: Burrows Swan, Susan A Winterthur Guide To American Needlework 1976 page 66