Textile
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Unlined bed cover made of two full widths of printed fabric with fringe on four sides. Pattern composed of two stripes: the wider has a parrot holding a nut perched on a curved flowering branch on a blue background 18.5 cm wide and the other, 11 cm wide, a bird with outspread wings perched on a branch of red berries alternating with a ribbon bow. Two groups of stripes are half dropped with one extra narrow stripe plus an additional section of each stripe on left and right to fill full width of fabric.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Portugal
label: possibly made in
content: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-57-2
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave; woven cotton tape with cotton weft-loop fringe (2 cm sections of red wool at 6 cm intervals); attached to 4 sides; note crossed and re-crossed warps
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (including fringe): 201 x 154 cm (6 ft. 7 1/8 in. x 60 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat H x W: 37.5 x 29.5 cm (14 3/4 x 11 5/8 in.)