Embroidery sample
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Dark green cut and voided velvet with minute dot pattern embroidered in elaborate border design of flower sprays in gold and silver with silver and white beads.
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: 1932-1-8
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Embroidery sample
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk thread, silk chenille thread, cotton gauze appliqué, flat gold and silver metal thread wound on a silk core, gold and silver metal coils, metal sequins, metal beads on silk ground Technique: embroidered on cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) Label: Satin, stem, and knot stitches in silk, chenille, and gold and silver metallic thread; embroidered gold and silver metal wire coils, sequins, beads; gauze appliqué on cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet); paper enclosure
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 36 x 17.5 cm (14 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.)