jan 1, 1684 - painted cloth

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In the Tudor period the walls of wealthy families were hung with tapestries, partly for ornament but also no doubt to exclude draughts. We are less familiar with the term ‘painted cloths’, items which may have been a cheaper substitute but served a similar function: the images often had a religious theme. They feature in many inventories from the fifteenth century: 1485 <i>xij yerdis of panetyd clothes ijs viijd</i>, York (SS45/302) but the term is recorded earlier in Latin: 1392 <i>lego ... meliorem pannum meum pictatum</i>, York (SS4/173). Such items were among goods imported from Veere in the Low Countries: 1483 <i>3 pannis depictis £1</i>; 1490 <i>a dos’ pantyd clothys</i>, Hull (YRS144/196,203). They were also used in churches: 1498 <i>Item ij awterclothes peynted price iijs</i>, Wakefield: these were recorded in the chantry chapel on the bridge (YAJ15/93). </br> Some references provide us with details of the paintings, as in the inventory of the goods in St William’s Chapel on Ouse Bridge: 1509 <i>ij curtyns longyng to the hie alter of rede payntid damaske wark ... ij alter clothes and ij curtyns of white damaske flowers payntid … ij olde alter clothes payntid with rede and ij curtyns for the werk day</i>, York (YRS106/29-30). In Sir Thomas Wentworth’s house at Bretton in 1542 were numerous expensive tapestries, and <i>hanginges … of red say with two paynted clothes fixed on the same, on </i>[one]<i> of our lady of pitie and thother of mary mawdelen </i>(YRS134/2). Cushions and bankers were also painted and the custom survived into the late seventeenth century at least: 1550 <i>old payntid clothes 12d</i>, Richmond (YRS152/78); 1628 <i>4 old paynted cushyons, 2s 6d,</i> Pudsey (LRS1/76); 1684 <i>2 pented quishens,</i> Cartworth (G-A).

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