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Border (Italy)
This is a Border. It is dated 16th–17th century. Its medium is silk embroidery, linen foundation, glass beads and its technique is embroidered using double running and overcasting stitches with deflected element work on plain weave foundation. It is a part of the Textiles department.
This fragment is likely a border from a domestic or ecclesiastical textile from Sicily. Embroidery fills the background leaving a pattern of grotesques, rosettes and cupids in the plain weave fabric. The bottom has a banner – left blank in this instance. The monochromatic nature of the piece is enhanced by glass beads.
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- Textile, Gargoyle
- cotton.
- Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1991-121-1
- Band (Italy)
- silk on linen.
- Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf.
- 1954-167-6
- Band (Italy), 17th century
- silk embroidery on linen foundation.
- Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
- 1931-66-142
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- Band (Italy)
- silk on linen.
- Gift of Marco Grassi.
- 1978-157-3
- Band (Italy)
- silk on linen.
- Gift of Richard C. Greenleaf.
- 1954-167-5
- Band (Italy)
- silk embroidery on linen foundation.
- Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma....
- 1962-52-3
Its dimensions are
H x W: 38.1 x 91.4 cm (15 x 36 in.)
Cite this object as
Border (Italy); silk embroidery, linen foundation, glass beads; H x W: 38.1 x 91.4 cm (15 x 36 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1896-1-101
