Pillow cover
date: label: Date
content: 1600–1650
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small cushion with a design showing a woman in the center with short brown hair and a blue and white gown worked in chenille thread. She holds in her right hand a scroll with the inscription: "Faith." She is surrounded by oversized flower sprays. At lower right is a pool with a bird, and at left, a leopard. Above is a castle with mica windows. Background is worked in silver thread and sides edged with silver lace.
place: label: made in
content: England
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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: 1959-170-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Pillow cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen foundation, silk, metallic thread, mica, glass chips and beads, pearls Technique: silk embroidered on plain weave using tent stitch and tent stitch with cut loops over padding; metal thread embroidery using slanted running stitch with diagonal alternating from row to row, couching and detached interlooping stitches over padding
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 x 30 cm (8 11/16 x 11 13/16 in.)