Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Twelve darning crosses, then decorative darning patches and central darning zig-zag in center, crowned initials and date.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1767
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered in running (pattern darning) and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation Label: Linen embroidered with silk in pattern darning and eyelet stitches
- Dimensions
- H x W: 47.6 x 41 cm (18 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Darning sampler
