Narrow border of blue silk embroidered in gold, silver and pale tints of silk. Design is a curving vine with a symmetrical arrangement of small carnation in profile. Trimmed with very narrow metal edging on top and bottom. Bottom has a fringe of green silk and gold thread.
18th century
Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: embroidered
1949-75-1
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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