Towel
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cream-colored panel embroidered with cream raw silk and silk floss, with drawn work. One end, almost half the towel, has two stylized vines containing tulip with 8-lobed rosette on stem and two large cone-like leaves, flanking symmetrical curving ornament, the whole surrounded by drawn work borders and terminating in elaborately knotted fringe. The upper half of the towel is plain except for two large parallel zigzags.
place: label: made in
content: Mytilene, 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: 1955-133-10
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Towel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, raw silk Technique: withdrawn element work with embroidery on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 89 x 43 cm (35 1/16 x 16 15/16 in.)