Embroidery sample

Medium: silk thread and chenille on a silk ground, paper Technique: embroidered on cut voided supplementary warp pile in a compound ground (velvet) | 1775-1805

Unknown Maker

Multicolored embroidery in a floral design on a ground of black velvet with blue and green stripes.

Credit: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
Object: 1932-1-63

Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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