Ribbon

Ribbon of Jacquard-woven silk in blue and ivory with a scrolling leaf design. Blue ground to the outer side of a bold scrolling border of tendril and leaf shapes. Within this border the ground is in white tabby decorated with a thin meandering stem bearing clusters of trefoil leaves. These are delineated by areas of thick weft around areas bound in varied twill, producing a three-dimensional effect. There is a 'pearl edge' of blue weft after a satin selvedge. Label on the back stating the ribbon was exhibited in the 1851 Great Exhibition.