Machine-made lace border that depicts a flotilla of vessels, each a composite of the Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria.  Anchors, rather than waves, form to great effect the scalloped edge.

Ruban en soie "boîteux" taffetas jaune broché vert, rose et or, et effets de trame, et bande de satin uni rose.

Silk programme for performances of Ali Sloper Baba and the Forty Burglars, at the Theatre Royal, Jersey, 9 and 10 November 1892

Horizontal tapestry with forest scene. Three trees are depicted across the tapestry (pear, chestnut and oak) with dense foliage below and two rabbits, a fox and a deer. In the foreground are many flowering plants including foxgloves, strawberries, hawkweed, bouncing betty, red tulips, blue daisies, and bluebells. A white convolvulus climbs the chestnut tree. Above each tree is a banner with an inscription written by William Morris in his "Verses for Pictures" published in 1891. Above the pear is the inscription, "By woodsman edge I faint and fail, by craftsman's edge I tell the tale." The chestnut tree bears the inscription: "High in the wood, high o'er the hall, aloft I rise, when low I fall." The oak tree bears the inscription: "Unmoved I stand what wind may blow, swift swift before the wind I go." The tapestry was commissioned in 1892 by Madeleine and Percy Wyndham for their country house Clouds, and woven at Merton Abbey by John Martin and William Sleath.

White grosgrain bodice and skirt, high collar and short slightly puffed sleeves, trimmed pearl beads and chiffon, machine embroidered net flounces, separate train attaching to nape of neck and sides of skirt in white figured silk satin; white satin shoes

Ruban en soie "boîteux" taffetas rose broché vert et or, et effets de trame, et bande de satin uni vert.

Ruban en soie, satin noir broché en couleurs rouge, orange, jaune, mauve et or. Les bords sont en boyaux or.

Ruban en soie, satin bleu broché en couleurs rouge, orange, jaune, mauve et or. Les bords sont en boyaux or.

Ruban en soie "boîteux" taffetas jaune broché vert, rose et or, et effets de trame, et bande de satin uni rouge.

Ruban en soie "boîteux" taffetas broché soie et or, et effets de trame, bandes satin uni jaune.

1892, France

1892, France

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