Embroidery sample
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Beige fabric cut in a heart shape with incomplete decorative motif. Embroidery worked in gold and purple beads, pink and purple rhinestones, copper metal thread, and multicolored confetti glass jewels. Edges outlined in blue cord couched in metal thread.
- Credit Line
- Gift of David Glickman
- 1930s
- Accession Number
- 1977-81-36
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- embroidery & stitching
- Embroidery sample
- Medium
- Medium: wool, glass beads, rhinestones, metal thread Technique: embroidery on 2-2 plain weave
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 x 17.1 cm (5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
- made in
- New York, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1977-81-36
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq479aa26cc-e2bc-4426-8180-fdc537d12294
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