C19th Hand Painted Design Mise-en-Carte or Point Paper Design for Textile Development crewelwork embroidery Inside edge: 38

Inside edge: 38

With finely drawn urns of flowers surrounded by foliage and drapery

The bonnets have some signs of age

silver gilt and fuchsia pink silk satin brocade

C19th Hand Painted Design Mise-en-Carte or Point Paper Design for Textile Development crewelwork embroidery Inside edge: 38From 19th century France, a hand painted mise en carte or point paper design used as a template for woven textile development. Panted in gouache onto a handmade heavy paper, there is a pencil drawn grid alongside smaller marked dot notations which would have been used by the weaver as a guide to colour and scale. The point paper enabled the silk designer to transfer a free hand s etch into instructions for the draw loom. The spaces between the