Sleeves
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pair of sheer cotton rectangular sleeve pieces: "b" is slightly deeper than "a." Each has four rows of grouped slits outlined with fine whipped cord; delicately embroidered with black silk with butterflies in the spaces between the groups of slits, smaller insects on the bars between the slits themselves. Central area of sleeve-piece only filled with embroidery. Heavily sized; upper edge whipped; lower edge finely hemmed; sides with deeper border of coarser unsized cotton cloth, each with four small holes outlined with buttonhole stitch.
place: label: made in
content: Europe
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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: 1953-73-1-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Sleeves
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on cotton Technique: embroidered
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 29.5 × 19 cm (11 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 29 × 21.5 cm (11 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)