Palampore Border Fragment Bespoke Mounted and Framed: C18th Coromandel Coast, India blue and white Embroidery: 16

Embroidery: 16

and a beautiful exotic bird with feathers highlighted in gold

They were traditionally used as decorative tent (yurt) hangings and covers

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

It is of a woman with an elaborate high hairstyle the likes of which were inspired by that of Marie Antoinette and the ladies of the French court

Palampore Border Fragment Bespoke Mounted and Framed: C18th Coromandel Coast, India blue and white Embroidery: 16This 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