Panel and fragments
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Very sheer ivory cotton muslin embroidered with clusters of flowers and a vine forming a scallop along the lower edge. The vines and stems are formed from crimped gold foil strips, the flower petals from gilt sequins, and the leaves from iridescent blue-green beetle elytra. Component (a) has ten pattern repeats, with partial bottom vine border.
place: label: made in
content: India
label: used in
content: Europe
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-25-1-a/d
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Panel and fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, beetle elytra, foil strips, metallic yarns, sequins Technique: embroidered on plain weave foundation Label: cotton embroidered with beetle elytra, foil strips, metallic yarns, and sequins
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (A): 36.8 × 214 cm (14 1/2 in. × 7 ft. 1/4 in.)