Fragment
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Off-white cotton sheer ground with embroidered design of a stylized floral spray with two large blossoms and numerous small ones curving to the left. The vines are executed in gold foil strips, the small flowers in gilt sequins, and the leaves in beetle elytra.
place: label: made in
content: India
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-43-20
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton ground, beetle elytra, gold foil strips, gilt sequins, gold metal-wrapped silk thread Technique: plain weave embroidered with cut beetle wings and sequins
label: Dimensions
content: 24.2 x 17.3 cm (9 1/2 x 6 13/16 in. )