Embroidery
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cream-colored cotton (possibly from a curtain or skirt) with detached floral motives worked in chain stitch. Flowers small garden varieties in clusters 3" to 4" long; arranged in staggered rows. Shading used in some blossoms. Right selvage present.
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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 the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-16-4
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Embroidery
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on cotton Technique: chain stitch embroidery
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 138 x 69 cm (54 5/16 x 27 3/16 in.)