Band
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long band of linen, pieced in four places, embroidered in blue. The design is reserved in the ground of the linen, the background solidly worked with embroidery stitches. Design consists of fantastical mermaid-like figures in profile confronted on either side of a fountain-like structure. Figures alternate with smaller-winged confronted grotesques. Narrow cream looped fringe trims the top and bottom edges.
place: label: made in
content: Italy, Spain or Morocco
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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: 1952-162-131
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Band
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on linen Technique: chain and counted running stitch embroidery on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 18 x 168 cm (7 1/16 in. x 5 ft. 6 1/8 in.)