Description
This rectangular textile, and labour intensive work of art, has extensive hand embroidery on ivory wool in a dynamic colour range. It has an embroidered maker’s mark in one corner #4309. It measures 72″ x 38″. The condition is good with a few minor marks.
This ivory wool throw depicts the American revival in textile needlework that happened between 1965 and 1978. This was a blending of a century old English embroidery style with vivid colours popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The stitch technique is laid work, or couching creating a very tidy appearance on bothe the front and back of the throw. The yarn is stitched/anchored onto place once laid into the patterns. The number 4309 was used by the manufacturers of needlework kits. Two ends have a partial fringe, edged with a solid row and then a small fringe. This is a loom woven fringe called selvedges. It was done this way to keep the shape of the throw. The needlework companies who sold these kits include Erica Wilson, Sunset, and Paragon. It measures 72″ x 38″.
