Textile
date: label: Date
content: mid-18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Narrow valance. Closely woven cotton (tabby weave) embroidered in polychrome wool. Design shows alternating clsuters of roses and carnations arranged under symmetrically curving floral branches. Lower edge scalloped. Colors, shades of red, rose, blue, violet, yellow, green. Stitches mostly chain and stem 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-157-3
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: crewel wool on cotton Technique: embriodered on tabby weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 241 x 30 cm (7 ft. 10 7/8 in. x 11 13/16 in.)