Quilting
date: label: Date
content: 1700–1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: One half of a woman's skirt, white cotton, backed with linen, quilted; wide border at bottom embroidered in polychrome wool. Border design: Quilting, small circular pattern, spiral ending in flower heads. embroidery, arrangement of alternating flower sprays, formally arranged, connected below with curving lines, and with shorter curves above, suggesting broken enframement. Reds, blues, yellows, pinks, lavendar, drab. Many flowers and leaves outlined in different colors. Narrow guard border below, of trailing vine. Stitches, chain and herring bone. Note that the quilting is worked through the lining, but embroidery is entirely on surface. Body of skirt is quilted in simple zig zag, perpendicular. Pocket hole at top, now stitched together. Stitches using wool: chain, buttonhole. Quilted with linen thread through back layer of sheer cotton plain weave with inner layer of cotton wadding in upper section and in border band cotton cord inserted through back between rows of stitches.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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 Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-14-6
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Quilting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, linen, wool Technique: embroidered; quilted plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8 x 128 cm (3 1/8 x 50 3/8 in.)