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Picture, embroidered silk
Worked by: Judith Bailey
American
Early 19th century
Object Place: America
Medium/Technique
Silk; Embroidered, satin, satin stitches
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Fanny A. Sargent
Accession Number53.1089
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionPicture, worked at Bradford Academy by Judith Bailey, great-grandmother of donor. Ivory satin ground, embroidered with polychrome silks in split and satin stitches. Shows a bouquet of mixed flowers bound at the stems with a narrow yellow ribbon. Circular composition. Some of the silks rotted out. Satin cracked and shows loose wefts where warp have broken. Intended to be framed with circulat mat.