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Description: | A cambric square, cut round the edges to form a saw-tooth shape, finished in button hole stitch. Border of embroidered flower heads and leaves, the centres of the flowers worked in eyelet stitch. Different motifs worked in each corner - a windmill, stork and fox, donkey and lyre also the initials 'FHN'. Said to have been embroidered by Lady Frances Nelson, First Viscountess Nelson d. 1831. In fact a type of whitework embroidery made in and exported from India. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | textile materials Catherine Nelson | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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