Collars
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two apparels (separate collars worn by a priest over the neck of a vestment). Red velvet with applied design in gold cloth outlined with couched gold thread, and white silk with subtle decoration in blue thread. Central design of conventionalized flower with wide leaves ending in long tendrils of gold thread. Flower crossed by a band of white silk with perpendicular blue embroidered lines, and two leaves in white silk couched in blue thread. Backed with a coarse natural linen. Apparels are incomplete and would have been lined with linen or silk and fastened with cords and tassels which are missing.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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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: 1955-157-4-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Collars
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic thread, linen Technique: embroidered
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 62 x 18 cm (24 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 62 x 18 cm (24 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)