Towel
1801–1900
- Medium
- Silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning weft; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strips and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped-silk in checkered chain, darning, double running, herring bone, Russian overcast, satin and stem stitches; plied main warp fringe terminating in knotted tassel
- Dimensions
- 196.7 × 40.9 cm (77 1/2 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)needlework (visual works)Textile