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A work made of silk, satin weave; embroidered in silk floss, silver and pink metal threads wrapped around a fiber core; in long and short split and  couching stitches and french knots.
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  • A work made of silk, satin weave; embroidered in silk floss, silver and pink metal threads wrapped around a fiber core; in long and short split and  couching stitches and french knots.

Date:

19th century

Artist:

United States

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fragment

Place

United States (Object made in:)

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Made 1801–1900

Medium

Silk, satin weave; embroidered in silk floss, silver and pink metal threads wrapped around a fiber core; in long and short split and couching stitches and French knots

Dimensions

48.5 × 45 cm (19 1/8 × 17 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Inez Cunningham Stark

Reference Number

1940.1113b

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