Apron
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cream white apron embroidered in colored silks and gold and silver thread. Design shows three offset rows of heavy rose buds with curving stems and leaves. Between each rose bud is a heavy drooping leaf in gold thread. Apron has five scallops along the bottom and is trimmed on three sides with metallic bobbin lace. A narrow piece of bobbin lace is at the top. Apron has a yoke of plain silk and drawstring.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: 1951-127-1
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Apron
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on silk foundation, metal-wrapped silk, flat metallic strips, flat metallic strips plied with metal-wrapped silk Technique: stem, satin and three variations of padded couching stitches on float patterned plain weave; bobbin lace
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 50.5 x 125 cm (19 7/8 x 49 3/16 in.)