A hanging woven in wool and silk with a scrolling acanthus leaf design in ivory silk against a red wool ground, within a Greek key style border, with a lower border panel beneath with stylised flower filled vases flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves against a moss green ground, woven with the initial "T" within a trefoil on the reverse--54 x 106in. (135 x 265cm.), late 1870s/early 1880s

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A hanging woven in wool and silk with a scrolling acanthus leaf design in ivory silk against a red wool ground, within a Greek key style border, with a lower border panel beneath with stylised flower filled vases flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves against a moss green ground, woven with the initial "T" within a trefoil on the reverse--54 x 106in. (135 x 265cm.), late 1870s/early 1880s

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This was made by the firm of James Templeton & Co., a Glasgow carpet manufacturer. See number 78 , "British Textiles from 1850-1900", Linda Parry, 1993, V & A, for a similar example of their work.

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