Towel end
date: label: Date
content: 18th–19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in shades of green, pink, blue, and red using outline and related filling stitches. Double guard strip in metallic satin stitch across lower part. Edging of gold bobbin lace. Narrow undyed silk cloth selvages.
place: label: made in
content: Turkey
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frances Morris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1951-111-41
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Towel end
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, silk, silver gilt foil on silk core Technique: embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 160.5 x 101.8 cm (5 ft. 3 3/16 in. x 40 1/16 in.)