Tassels
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pair of elaborate tassels in needlework, attached to narrow silk bands with cut velvet pattern. From main tassels of colored silk and metal threads hang many small figures, animals and birds. One figure in bright red, modern and made in Guatemala.
place: label: made in
content: Spain or Portugal
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-58-9
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Tassels
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metal Technique: embroidered
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 93 x 7 cm (36 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)