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Description: | Large inner pocket and two smaller outer pockets (to hold writing materials), embroidered on fine canvas made with Chinese grass fibre with various coloured silks. Stitches; straight counted satin, covering entire canvas. Pattern; trellis design of frets, the intervening spaces filled by various symbols. Bands of black silk in floral designs with blue floss silk in satin stitch and edged with light blue silk. Handle of cord of cream silk with two plain mother-of-pearl tablets.
Technique: embroidering
Material: silk
Material: grass canvas
detail of motifs
writing utensils case | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.23409 | Go to resource |
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