Status cloth
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four pieces of woven raffia seamed together down the long sides with buttonhole stitch to form a rectangular panel. Each piece is patterned with irregular geometric forms in tan and dark brown raffia pile with reddish-brown outlining stitch.
place: label: made in
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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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: 1957-110-3
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Status cloth
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: raffia Technique: plain weave, pieced and embroidered with buttonhole and pile stitches Label: Raffia plain weave, pieced and embroidered with buttonhole and pile stitches
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 67.3 x 41.9 cm (26 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)