C19th Hand Painted Design Mise-en-Carte or Point Paper Design for Textile Development crewelwork embroidery Originally used as a prayer

Originally used as a prayer mat or wall hanging

Dating from the second quarter of the 19th century this lovely red and white toile

The bonnets have some signs of age

With finely drawn urns of flowers surrounded by foliage and drapery

and we feel its a work of art in its own right and deserves to be put on prominent display

C19th Hand Painted Design Mise-en-Carte or Point Paper Design for Textile Development crewelwork embroidery Originally used as a prayerFrom 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