C19th Hand Painted Design Mise-en-Carte or Point Paper Design for Textile Development crewelwork embroidery The flower centres are worked

The flower centres are worked in French knots or forbidden stitch which gives texture and interest

Excellent vintage condition with a machine stitched hem

With finely drawn urns of flowers surrounded by foliage and drapery

The bonnets have some signs of age

The panel may possibly be a sample as it’s unfinished

C19th Hand Painted Design Mise-en-Carte or Point Paper Design for Textile Development crewelwork embroidery The flower centres are workedFrom 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