Palampore Border Fragment Bespoke Mounted and Framed: C18th Coromandel Coast, India blue and white hand-woven natural cotton or fine

hand-woven natural cotton or fine muslin ground with intricate hand-stitching using fine silk and metallic threads

This bolster is made using a hand loomed Indonesian indigo/black wool with gilt work chainstitch embroidery

Can be used as a wallhanging

and a beautiful exotic bird with feathers highlighted in gold

but we feel this could be removed to make a more pleasing sized panel to hang on a wall

Palampore Border Fragment Bespoke Mounted and Framed: C18th Coromandel Coast, India blue and white hand-woven natural cotton or fineThis has to be one of our all time favourite pieces to ever pass through our hands. One of the joys of our work as conservators is getting to know textiles intimately in a way very few people do, sometimes being the first person to put and needle and thread to it in over 300 years. We have stretched and mounted this fragment of hand painted chintz over a lined and interlined board and have put it into a bespoke hand painted frame carefully chosen to