Victorian Berlin Woolwork Flowers Under Glass Dome

• Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
  
  The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
• Berlin Wool Work - Berlin wool work is a style of needlepoint, using wool yarn on canvas. Coloured patterns on squared paper were copied onto the canvas. By using many colours and hues of wool yarn, made possible by the great progresses made in dyeing in the 1830s, embroiderers were able to produce intricate three-dimensional scenes, through careful use of shading. Popular subjects included floral designs, Victorian paintings, biblical or allegorical motifs
  
  Berlin work was used for covering chair-backs, seats and footstools in the Victorian era.

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• embroidery
  • Berlin woolwork 6
  • woolwork 51
• meat covers / food covers / dish covers - pewter 1,562