Terrier Antiques at Hebden Bridge has dated this Framed Antique Textile Artwork to the 1890s.
Founded in Roubaix, France the company had many mills and this particular design will have come from a design house specialising in interior furnishing products, the design houses produced work for manufacturers of carpets, curtains, upholstery fabrics, wallpapers and ceramics, the designs would have been transferred to punched cards to be used in the mills predominantly in the north of England such as Bradford, Leeds, Manchester etc. They were printed in gouache and embellished with intricate maker's marks and grids.

Each one has a Felix Vanoutryve & Co label which translates as follows:
Esquisse No - Sketch Number
Tissu - Fabric type
Com - Fabric weaves reference
Pat - Production number
Haut - Fabric height / length

Cartons - Number of hooks / needles in a Jacquard machine
Duitage - Density of the warp threads per cm
Montage - Mill quality reference.
Dated for August 22nd 1898
Size: 720 x 1100mm
Collection is from our Hebden Bridge shop or by prior arranged delivery.
Terrier Antiques at Hebden Bridge has dated this Framed Antique Textile Artwork to the 1890s.
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