Antique Hand Embroidered Floral Linen Panel with Border Unused Panel 2 : C1910 France hand painted border The headdress fixes to the

The headdress fixes to the head with two ribbon ties on either side

red velvet part has been applied to the pale cream silk velvet backing at a later date

it is a stunning piece of embroidery in its own right

It is backed in a pale apricot coloured hand spun linen and has been edged with a wide gold gilt metal braid

Printed in soft blues with a pale sand colour which work well with the black outline of the block printing

Antique Hand Embroidered Floral Linen Panel with Border Unused Panel 2 : C1910 France hand painted border The headdress fixes to theItem details: A large sized unused fine linen panel with hand embroidered floral motifs and border. The panel may possibly be a sample, hand worked in a beautiful pale red with green on a fine cream linen, this would have been made for domestic interiors, possibly intended for curtains. A sample would have been shown to customers before being embroidered to the size required. We have two panels of this embroidery this one is the smaller of the two and