Pillow Cover
ca. 1600 (made)
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Top half of a pillow bier of fine bleached linen embroidered with black silk thread in a pattern of scrolling vines, leaves and grapes. The outlines are worked in plaited braid stitch, the grapes in chain and stem stitch and the leaves filled in with geometric patterns of counted-thread stitch.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Linen, silk; hand-embroidered, hand-woven, hand-sewn |
| Brief description | Top half of a pillow bier of counted-thread linen blackwork, 1600c, English; vines and grapes |
| Physical description | Top half of a pillow bier of fine bleached linen embroidered with black silk thread in a pattern of scrolling vines, leaves and grapes. The outlines are worked in plaited braid stitch, the grapes in chain and stem stitch and the leaves filled in with geometric patterns of counted-thread stitch. |
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| Accession number | T.81-1924 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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