Towel
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cotton towel with ends embroidered in silks and metal thread. Design appears to be house with groups of towers at side. Worked entirely in drawnwork, embroidered over in colors; parts outlined in flat metal and metal thread.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Turkey
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Henry G. Dwight
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1949-84-4
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Towel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk and metal wrapped silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidery, drawnwork
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 83.1 x 44.4 cm (32 11/16 x 17 1/2 in.)