GENERAL EMBROIDERY, PICTURE

Surface embroidery done by hand was a very popular past time for young ladies in the Victorian era. Patterns were being published in the ‘new’ women’s magazines making new designs available to a wider audience. Worked in silk thread on a fine silk background this bouquet of flowers, features tulips, buds and an abundance of foliage. The embroidery is of a domestic quality. The fine silk background has disintegrated, the embroidery cut out and mounted onto the new background. Framing would have taken place in the 3rd quarter of the 20th Century. This item was one of three in the same series, all of which would have been worked by the same person.