A fellow artist is moving, getting rid of a lot of items, and had beautiful linens she will never use, came to her through her family, probably old, and this piece came to me.
It's actually a banquet style table cloth, linen, much heavy openwork and stitching and drawn threadwork, and was stained. A bath in Synthropol took care of most of the stains, so I decided not to dye it with coffee, my first thought, but leave it alone. I may take closeup pix for Art the Beautiful Metaphor and see if anyone can help identify the style of work and techniques, but tonight I just wanted to gloat a bit.
Then the decision on the place for it to rest. Too narrow for the window I originally had in mind, but very nice as a gathered full portiere in the bedroom, just slung over a tension rod. No damage done to textile, and now it can hang a while, until I get up the gumption to starch and press it. No harm in letting it hang for a bit, to release some of the creases. And it hides various unlovely items like file boxes and vacuum cleaners and out of season decorative items.
The country style chair was a dumpster find years ago. So you could say the textile is slumming a bit.
It definitely lends a shabby chic air to the place. Color is ecru cutwork and drawn threadwork on white linen, and I see this doorway from my bed, so it's a good place to enjoy the piece. I'll see it every day, and honor it and all the stitching work in it. It's hung a few inches up off the ground, so that marauding kitties don't get caught up in the openwork.
