Borders
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two borders, probably from sleeve or bottom of dress, worked in silks in red, yellow, orange, white, and outlines of black. Design shows a stylized flower head, with heart-shaped leaves at the center and small leaf-shaped corner designs. Repeat about 3 inches wide, separated by a narrow border of completely stylized smaller flower-head. A bottom border of drawn work, made by whipping groups of threads in similar colors to embroidery, about 1/2 inch wide.
place: label: made in
content: Greece
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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 Provident Securities Company from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Crocker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-133-31-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Borders
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 17 x 96 cm (6 11/16 x 37 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 17 x 95 cm (6 11/16 x 37 3/8 in.)