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Crewelwork embroidery
Detail: Right side
Petticoat border
Crewelwork embroidery
American (New England, Ipswich, Massachusetts)
1758
Object Place: Ipswich, New England, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Linen plain weave with wool embroidery
Dimensions
Overall: 21.7 x 269.2 cm (8 9/16 x 106 in.)
Credit Line
Special Textile Fund
Accession Number62.178
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionPetticoat border made of four pieces of plain weave linen with abutting seams embroidered with trees, plants, and animals (including a goat, cow, rooster, and several birds) on yellow and brown ground along bottom; predominately Roumanian couching or New England laid stitch in ground area, trees, flowers, leaves, and branches; thin stems and outlines of plants and animals in stem stitch, although parts of flowers on far right outlined in hem stitch; large yellow fruit filled in with darning stitches; dots in pink, red, and yellow flower on right in seed stitch; gold-colored centers of several flowers in bullion stitch; complete pattern continuous when two ends joined