Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Border with needlework fringe showing a design of a curving floral vine.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- mid-16th century
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Marian Hague
- Medium
- Medium: silk on linen Technique: selected warps and wefts of the linen plain weave fabric wtihdrawn, leaving a 1/16 of an inch square grid for needlework; natural linen darned into solid pattern areas; red silk wrapped around the grid and pulled tight for an openwork background.
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Border
