Border
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long narrow border of very fine white cotton ornamented with drawn work, embroidery in white, gold thread, black silks and gold fringe at bottom set onto narrow brocaded ribbon on top. Design consists of a double-headed eagle between peacocks with small birds below. Bodies of birds and wings worked in a great variety of designs in very fine drawn work, geometric patterns, embroidered over in white, outlines in gold thread, bird's eyes in black silk. Seven repeats of this group and in each one drawn work designs are different.
place: label: made in
content: Russia
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1954-54-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Border
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, silk, metallic thread Technique: deflected element work and embroidery
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (exclusive of ribbon and fringe): 127 x 14 cm (50 x 5 1/2 in.)