When carrying out research for exhibition on Thomas Wardle at Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester (2009), Brenda King supplied the information that there is a piece with the same pattern in a different colourway and without the plush border at Gawthorpe Hall. (Personal communication by email, 1.06.2006)Embroidered silk panel in gold thread and silks, Leek Embroidery Society, England, ca. 1885Embroidered panel. Narrow panel of Anglo-Indian design worked in silks on silk with a 1.5 to 2 inch (3 to 5 cm) border all around of rust-coloured silk plush. The embroidery shows a branching design of leaves and palmettes shaped flowers worked in shades of green, cream, red and pink. There is a narrow border top and bottom of small stylised flowers with a curving stem, these flowerheads are worked in buttonhole stitch whereas the rest of the embroidery is worked in split and long and short stitches in silk on a tussor silk ground. Japanese gold thread has been couched around sections of the design.
The embroidery is worked on a pre-printed silk ground printed with the design in outline at the Leek print works.