Embroidery sample
Cooper Hewitt

Embroidery sample

ca. 1770

Medium: silk thread, silk chenille thread, cotton gauze appliqué, flat gold and silver metal thread wound on a silk core, gold and silver metal coils, metal sequins, metal beads on silk ground Technique: embroidered on cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet) Label: Satin, stem, and knot stitches in silk, chenille, and gold and silver metallic thread; embroidered gold and silver metal wire coils, sequins, beads; gauze appliqué on cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet); paper enclosure
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Cooper Hewitt

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