This charming old unfinished beadwork and needlepoint panel is large and meant to be a pole screen fire screen, but it would be wonderful made up as focal top of a luxurious down-filled and lushly fringed decorator throw or sofa table. Variable white to brown beads in flowers and various greens to black on leaves, there are also glass beads in upper corners and lower V, and trim of gold framing in the silk yarn border. These mid-1800s glass beads are worked on a fine linen canvas, the panel is 17" x 14" as you see it, and could be completed in needlepoint or even left unfinished, stretched and hung as artwork. The yarns in needlepoint stitch filling in the back show a bright pink color, almost red, and was left uncompleted. It's possible at this point to unpick the dark pink and fill in the backing with a color you'd choose. Found long ago in England, it has been archival stored, is clean and odor-free.
Very good to excellent condition for age and type, noted is the color and incomplete status of the Victorian era silk needlepoint yarns of the background (at bottom). The fauna/leaves are entirely done in colored glass beads, so the panel is rather heavy. Very little, if any, disruption to the silk stitches and the beadwork seems complete to my eye. I've always found needlepoint relaxing, and I hope someone out there will take on this project and complete it. Lots of photos, so be sure to check them all. Clean and odor-free, ready to make up or to use as tabletop or wall hanging (would only need hanging loops added.
