old photo a room of the "Fasanen"castle, Moritzburg from around 1770/75

Originally this covering used to be in the antechamber and in the first inventary of 1816 it is described: "..a white satin fabric with flowers, tambour embroidery".

In the middle of the 19th c. it was already removed and therefore nothing further is known. It is planned to reconstruct a wall covering with tambour- or chainstitch. But so far only very few examples of this kind of embroidery around 18770-1800 could be found, not to speak of a suitable pattern.

Here an old photo of another room of the castle is reproduced and an example of a tambour embroidery from the National Museum of Munich with flower embroidery from 1775 which seems to be similar to the missing wall covering.

All references or tips will be greatly appreciated,
please write to

Margitta Coban-Hensel
Sachgebietsleiterin Fasanerie
Schloss Moritzburg
D-01468 Moritzburg