Art Nouveau Hand Embroidered Cornely Lace Chateau Length Curtain: C1900 France

From France C1900 a beautiful Cornely embroidered Art Nouveau period chateau window length Curtain.

Entirely embroidered free hand onto a fine Indian muslin in mercerised cotton with trailing floral motifs worked in chain stitch.

The first machines were invented in the early 1800s to imitate tambour embroidery and was invented by Bonnaz, Cornely bought the patent.

He then developed the needles to produce long lines of chain stitching enabling freehand designs to be produced on white lawn or muslin.

These curtains were hugely popular in France in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The curtain has scalloped edges running down either side and is gathered along the top edge in a cotton curtain tape to which ties are attached.

Please see our other listings for more hand embroidered Chateau length curtains.

 Measurements: 

332 x 136cm

 Condition: 

In excellent useable antique condition with a couple of sensitively done historic mends and a scattering of tiny holes. All to be expected in an antique domestic textile.