IDENTIFIERS
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id:	117571
accession number:	T.30-1954

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 September 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cover embroidered with blue and red silk and silver thread in cross, chain, buttonhole and stem stitch.  At each end of the cover, a border composed of two rows of highly stylized floral sprigs are worked alternately in blue and red silk with alternate red and blue sprigs invested. The cover is divided into rectangles by lines of chain stitch in silver thread, which also form a diaper of octagons and lozenges.  The octagons are powdered with crosses, lozenges and triangles.
title:	cover

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Sir Robert Hyde Greg KCMG

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/117571





TECHNIQUES
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Cover embroidered with blue and red silk and silver thread in cross, chain, buttonhole and stem stitch
weaving
TECHNIQUES
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embroidering

CATEGORIES
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category: embroidery

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: in
value: 25.1/4

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 17.1/4