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Band with pointed edges
Italian
17th century (?)
Object Place: Italy
Medium/Technique
Linen buratto ground with silk floss embroidery and gold-colored metal strip wrapped on silk core couched, and silk floss tassels, and lace trim of gold-colored metal strip wrapped on silk core
Dimensions
330 x 11.5 cm (129 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number43.304
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionDecorative border. Narrow, dagged, white silk, gauze band with a repeating undulating stalk motif having various seminaturalistic blossoms and leaves. Polychrome floss silk and metallic yarns. A metallic yarn lace trim edges the gauze. A small ball pendant at the point of each dag. Several repairs to ground and embroidery. Point, Buratto.
ProvenanceLent by Miss Elizabeth Day McCormick, February 15, 1943.