Bed hanging | Types | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 5 objects of this type

Three panels of heavy unbleached linen tabby sewn together and embroidered in red silk in typical Naxian large-scale pattern of 4-pointed stars filled in with long diamond or leaf shapes in form of cross, with small geometric ornament reserved in the solid embroidery.

Bed Hanging (Greece), 18th–19th century
silk embroidery on linen foundation.
Gift of Provident Securities Company from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. William....
1955-133-17

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Bed Hanging (India (for European market))

Bed Hanging (India (for European market))
cotton.
1953-123-1-a/h

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center and is lined in white silk plain weave. The design is arranged so that golden rococo curves meet at the center seam to form a symmetrical v-shaped pattern, with flowering branches and birds, worked in satin stitch in colored silks. While the flowers are symmetrical, the birds are vertically off-set; each panel shows eleven birds, all different, which appear to be taken from a set of ornithological prints by Xaviero Manetti. Metallic effects in several textures are created with couched crimped gold lamella and couched foil-wrapped silk-core threads.

Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70
silk, metal-wrapped silk-core threads.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-166-46-b

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 13 images of this object.

Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center and is lined in white silk plain weave. The design is arranged so that golden rococo curves meet at the center seam to form a symmetrical v-shaped pattern, with flowering branches and birds, worked in satin stitch in colored silks. While the flowers are symmetrical, the birds are vertically off-set; each panel shows eleven birds, all different, which appear to be taken from a set of ornithological prints by Xaviero Manetti. Metallic effects in several textures are created with couched crimped gold lamella and couched foil-wrapped silk-core threads.

Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70
silk, metal-wrapped silk-core yarns.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-166-46-a

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 14 images of this object.

Bed Hanging (Italy), 18th century
linen.
1952-162-117

This object is part of the Textiles collection.