Table cover
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark green needle lace. Design made up of detached motifs of a leaf or feather pattern, much used in Spanish embroidery; at ends on inner border of curving vines enclosing birds holding flower in beak, and crowned lion. Stitches, largely satin stitch; bodies of animals outline in contrasting colors in chain stitch. Soft floss silk used.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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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 through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1950-34-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Table cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk Technique: embroidered in satin and chain stitch
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 163.5 x 92.5 cm (5 ft. 4 3/8 in. x 36 7/16 in.)