Carpet sample. A square piece of tartan carpet. Mainly red, with a narrow yellow and white grid pattern, a grid of wide bands of light and dark brown and mossy green, and dark blue, green and teal where the bands intersect.

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Title

Carpet sample. A square piece of tartan carpet. Mainly red, with a narrow yellow and white grid pattern, a grid of wide bands of light and dark brown and mossy green, and dark blue, green and teal where the bands intersect.

Identifier

ABDUA:64518

Description

Tartan-like woven especially for Balmoral Castle. Not tufted. Red, brown, green x 3, heather, olive, blue, dark blue, yellow, white, black-purple.
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858

Date

Early: 1840 Late: 1858

Relation

ABDUA:36865

Format

wool vegetable fibre flax, woven, L: 270 mm W: 265 mm

Type

Physical Object

Coverage

Europe, Scotland, North East Scotland, Balmoral Castle Crathie Aberdeenshire