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Description: | Garment fragment, skirt border, embroidered, with an elaborate design of pots of flowers (or the tree of life) and birds, includes the use of cretan feather stitch and chain stitch. From Crete, made about 1880-1899.
Part: whole, Aspect: construction, Description: embroidery
Part: thread, Aspect: type, Description: silk
Part: mounting, Aspect: type, Description: unframed
Part: stitch, Aspect: type, Description: cretan feather stitch & chain stitch
Part: surface treatment, Aspect: subject, Description: tree & tree of life
Part: surface treatment, Aspect: subject, Description: bird
Material: textile, linen
Part: ground, Material: textile, linen
Colour: multi-coloured
Part: thread, Colour: blue
Part: thread, Colour: yellow
Part: thread, Colour: red
Part: thread, Colour: brown
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: Back of the embroidery.
: Close-up showing cretan feather stitch and chain stitch. | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.costume&textiles.269032 | Go to resource |
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