Handkerchief
date: label: Date
content: 1840–1860
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White linen handkerchief with elaborate embroidered borders. Buttonholed scalloped edge with shield-shaped sections framing minute embroidered flowers. Above are other border designs and festoons of small flowers. Large corner initial embroidered in white: "P.D.O."
place: label: made in
content: Belgium or France
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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 Mrs. R. Keith Kane from the estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1951-60-2
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Handkerchief
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen Technique: buttonhole, knot, and satin stitch embroidery
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 41 × 41 cm (16 1/8 × 16 1/8 in.)