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Embroidered Picture Depicting an Allegory of Music
Art Inst. Chicago

Embroidered Picture Depicting an Allegory of Music

England · 17th century, c. 1640

Probably linen, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave over bast fiber padding; embroidered with silk, silk-wrapped-metal-wire coils, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and feathers in bullion, buttonhole, detached twisted trammed buttonhole, encroaching Gobelin, individual back, raised stem and tent stitches; laid work and couching; embellished with mica
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CC0 — Public Domain
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