Dress
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long dress of heavy white cotton, straight sleeve, body flares slightly at hem as long, wedge-shaped pieces are sewn in from under arm to hem. Ornamented at the hem with a deep border of embroidery in black, brown, olive green and red. Design is highly stylized: at bottom, solidly worked from 6 3/4 inches in narrow bands of zigzag patterns; above, an arrangement of pillar-like forms and stylized plants, with a plant at the top of each pillar, so that the whole suggests a wall. Height of the whole border is 14 inches. Cuffs of sleeves are also finished with a deep border of embroidery in brown, red, white and yellow silks, in geometric forms. Mainly cross stitch; on sleeve coarse darning stitch.
place: label: made in
content: Greece
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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 Provident Securities Company from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Crocker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1955-133-30
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Dress
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave foundation
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 125 x 107 cm (49 3/16 x 42 1/8 in.)