ZFC Item Section - HMS Glory Trapunto

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Exhibition Copy	University of California - Santa Cruz Board of Councilors Meeting, Rare Flags Exhibit Santa Cruz, CA 7 June 2012 Santa Cruz, CA, June 7, 2012: The Zaricor Flag Collection exhibited 34 flags and artifacts at the University of California Santa Cruz Campus for the Board of Councilors Meeting. HMS Glory Trapunto 1900 to 1904 Date: 1900-1904 Media: Silk yarn and thread. Comment: A trapunto is an ornately embroidered commemorative fabric. Making a trapunto involves the addition of padding behind a piece of silk, upon which elaborate designs are embroidered to create a three-dimensional image. It was not uncommon for trapuntos of the time to contain many patriotic symbols. Many trapuntos were made and sold by the George Washington Co. in Yokohama, Japan in the late 1880s to the early 1930s. Besides sailors from the Royal Navy's China station (collectively the ports of Singapore, Hong Kong and Wei Hai Wei) and their German counterparts from the German East Asia Squadron at Tsingtao, American soldiers and sailors from the Philippines were typical customers for these embroideries. Visiting servicemen would send trapuntos home for framing as a memento of their service. This Royal Navy trapunto for a crewman from the HMS Glory, assigned to the Royal Navy's China Station, has a typical design, a panoply of naval ensigns around exquisite embroidery of a warship, surmounted by Britain's Imperial Crown. The HMS Glory was a purpose built Canopus class British battleship, that was intended for and detailed to the China Station in 1900. She would be withdrawn in 1905, after a treaty with the Japanese Empire reduced the need for the Royal Navy to maintain a large force patrolling the China Coast. Provenance: Acquired in 2011 by the Zaricor Flag Collection ZFC3699, at auction from Charles Miller Ltd., London, United Kingdom. www.FlagCollection.com

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Exhibition Copy

University of California - Santa Cruz
Board of Councilors Meeting, Rare Flags Exhibit
Santa Cruz, CA
7 June 2012

Santa Cruz, CA, June 7, 2012: The Zaricor Flag Collection exhibited 34 flags and artifacts at the University of California Santa Cruz Campus for the Board of Councilors Meeting.

HMS Glory Trapunto
1900 to 1904

Date: 1900-1904

Media: Silk yarn and thread.

Comment: A trapunto is an ornately embroidered commemorative fabric.
Making a trapunto involves the addition of padding behind a piece of silk, upon
which elaborate designs are embroidered to create a three-dimensional image.
It was not uncommon for trapuntos of the time to contain many patriotic symbols.
Many trapuntos were made and sold by the George Washington Co. in
Yokohama, Japan in the late 1880s to the early 1930s. Besides sailors from the
Royal Navy's China station (collectively the ports of Singapore, Hong Kong
and Wei Hai Wei) and their German counterparts from the German East Asia
Squadron at Tsingtao, American soldiers and sailors from the Philippines were
typical customers for these embroideries. Visiting servicemen would send
trapuntos home for framing as a memento of their service.
This Royal Navy trapunto for a crewman from the HMS Glory, assigned to
the Royal Navy's China Station, has a typical design, a panoply of naval ensigns
around exquisite embroidery of a warship, surmounted by Britain's Imperial
Crown. The HMS Glory was a purpose built Canopus class British battleship,
that was intended for and detailed to the China Station in 1900. She would be
withdrawn in 1905, after a treaty with the Japanese Empire reduced the need for
the Royal Navy to maintain a large force patrolling the China Coast.

Provenance: Acquired in 2011 by the Zaricor Flag Collection ZFC3699, at auction
from Charles Miller Ltd., London, United Kingdom. www.FlagCollection.com