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Greek Islands, Dodecanese, Rhodes
18th century
Object Place: Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece
Medium/Technique
Linen, embroidery
Dimensions
68.5 x 59 cm (26 15/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number59.466
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionMade from three fragments of a bed tent door.
Natural linen tabby-woven ground, embroidered with floss silks in cross stitch. Wide bands of ornament, showing conventionalized plant forms in red, green, blue and buff, alternating with narrow bands of red geometric ornament. In one corner, part of an eight pointed star, in red and green. A good deal of the silk has worn or rotted out. Soiled. Linen browned.
Natural linen tabby-woven ground, embroidered with floss silks in cross stitch. Wide bands of ornament, showing conventionalized plant forms in red, green, blue and buff, alternating with narrow bands of red geometric ornament. In one corner, part of an eight pointed star, in red and green. A good deal of the silk has worn or rotted out. Soiled. Linen browned.