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A work made of center: linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gold-gilt-strip wound around a silk core, in upright gobelin and tent stitches; outer area: cotton and gold gilt strip wound around cotton core, satin weave; braid: gold-gilt-strip wound around cotton core, bobbin part lace.

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  • A work made of center: linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gold-gilt-strip wound around a silk core, in upright gobelin and tent stitches; outer area: cotton and gold gilt strip wound around cotton core, satin weave; braid: gold-gilt-strip wound around cotton core, bobbin part lace.

Date:

1875/1925

Artist:

Possibly Germany

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Cover

Place

Germany (Object made in:)

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Made 1875–1925

Medium

Center: linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gold-gilt-strip wound around a silk core, in upright Gobelin and tent stitches; outer area: cotton and gold gilt strip wound around cotton core, satin weave; braid: Gold-gilt-strip wound around cotton core, bobbin part lace

Dimensions

107.2 × 107.2 cm (42 1/8 × 42 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Isabel M. Horwitz

Reference Number

1986.1049

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