Table cover
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular linen cover dominated by a complex border of four panels combining drawn work and embroidery. The inner section is made up of alternating squares of embroidery and drawn work with geometric floral vine guard stripes. The border is completed on the inside and outside by continuous narrow bands of drawn work in alternating light blue and orange, from which stems elaborate leaf or flower-like forms, alternating in blue and orange. The outer edge is trimmed with a randa of continuous bobbin braided trim in orange and blue.
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: Gift of Alice DeLamar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1969-162-2
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: plain weave embroidered in satin, running, and wrapped double-running stiches; drawnwork with wrapping and interweaving, bobbin braid, hem-stitching at each end of fabric.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 158 x 75 cm (5 ft. 2 3/16 in. x 29 1/2 in.)