Panel from a bed tent opening: T.4-1997

Awaiting location update

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Entities

Panel from a bed tent opening
Greek Island embroidery

Description

Linen panel from a bed tent opening embroidered with lightly twisted polychrome silks (red, light and dark green, light and dark brown, pink, yellow and mid-blue) worked in a multi-directional cross stitch. A vertical repeat pattern, sometimes called 'broad leaf and peacock pattern', that is a stylized leaf and possibly a bird design is represented on the panel.

Legal notes

Purchased with the Marianne Ellis Fund

Measurements and weight

Length: 154 cm
Width: 27 cm

Place(s) associated

Rhodes ⪼ Dodecanese ⪼ Greece

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1997-04-28) by Wentworth, Judy

Dating

18th Century
Circa 1701 CE - Circa 1801 CE

Note

Panel such as these are found on some Rhodian bed tents (sparvers) either worked vertically on each side of the tent opening, or in horizontal bands approximately a third of the way up the tent panels. Panels completely covered with polychrome embroidery are very much rarer than the more usual arrangement of highly stylized leaf and branch motifs, worked in one, or sometimes two colours, placed in regular lines or forming borders on a plain linen ground.

Materials used in production

ground Linen
twisted silk Silk

Techniques used in production

Weaving : Linen panel from a bed tent opening embroidered with lightly twisted polychrome silks (red, light and dark green, light and dark brown, pink, yellow and mid-blue) worked in a multi-directional cross stitch. A vertical repeat pattern, sometimes called 'broad leaf and peacock pattern', that is a stylized leaf and possibly a bird design is represented on the panel.
Embroidering