Wentworth Handkerchief
This beautiful Wentworth Handkerchief is reproduced from the collection of Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library.
The dark paneling, saturated colors, and undulating curves in the William and Mary-style
furniture in the Wentworth Room inspired the name for this handkerchief. The circa 1700
paneling in this room came from the Samuel Wentworth house built in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. Today the room holds a bevy of furniture from New England, as well as a tea table, originally owned by Peter Schuyler (1657–1724), the first mayor of Albany, New York, and 3-time governor of New York.
The original handkerchief that our reproduction Wentworth Handkerchief is based on was printed in England between 1805 and 1810. It was made from plain-woven cotton, printed in the mordant style in two shades of red and two shades of brown, with penciled yellow and blue.
The design of the Wentworth Handkerchief features a border of shoots and cones surrounding small red leaves scattered in the center section of the handkerchief. The border design of double dashed lines with clusters of shoots in red, brown, and pale blue, as well as small clusters of geometric red and blue flowers, a stalk, a shamrock-like cluster of wider leaves, and a pod or cone that is similar to a bunch of sumac berries, is similar to other works by John Hewson and a pattern found in the pattern book of Archibald Hamilton Rowan.
Our Wentworth Handkerchief:
- Measures approximately 37" x 37"
- 100% Hand-Loomed Cotton Mull
- Hand block printed and hand finished
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