This 17th -18th Century embroidery dates from before is a rare survivor of a piece of silk brocade fabric with a design of pagodas and flowers
This 17th - 18th Century embroidery dates from before 1740 It is in my own collection and I acquired it 30 years ago. It was dated by a local embroidery museum and it was part of the front of a panelled dress. The background is yellow Japanese silk with a design of Pagodas and the silk is 18 inches wide because of the silk tax of this time. The museum asked me to donate it to the museum as there was not as fine an embroidery in their collection, but I declined and I still have it. It was valued and authenticated 20 years ago by a television antiques show. It is in single thread embroidery. No two flowers are the same . Some of the flowers are appliqued onto the fabric and these are mainly carnations and tulips. These may be older that the rest of the work and could have been taken off another garment and they might even be Elizabethan. I photographed it in 2014 but it can be re-photographed if necessary
Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: Burnley, Lancashire ,England
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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