Late XIXth or Early XXth C. Linen bed linen with R.P. initials - Textile - 2.8 m - 1.9 m

This would have been in the late 19th early 20th Century a very wide bed linen
as beds were around 1m10 or maximum 1m20 wide.
The width of this bed linen is 1m90 and will just about cover a 1m60 bed,
but preferable a single bed or a bed with 1m40 width.
Whichever it is a handsome bed linen and we can more or less date it to
the late 19th Century as it has a seam in the centre.
The weaving looms were more or less 1 meter width.
So large quantities of that dimension were woven, then cut to the
required length and out workers or young girls, trained in the factory ,would hand sew
the selvedges together with such precision that one would hardly know there was a seam.
And the proof is here as after all that time the bed linen is still as perfect as when it was
first hand sewn.
The initials R.P. are partly embroidered in very high relief en partly out lined and then
slip stitch embroidered.
In between the 3 rows of "polka dot" embroidery are 2 lines of open thread work in single ajour.
An interesting bed linen.