Tea Cloth of fine, white linen hand-embroidered with open-work, shadow-work, textural stitches and satin stitch
- Title
- Tea Cloth of fine, white linen hand-embroidered with open-work, shadow-work, textural stitches and satin stitch
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Designer
- Marghab Linens
- Description
- Tea Cloth of fine, white linen hand-embroidered with open-work, shadow-work, textural stitches and satin stitch; each corner is heavily worked with leaves and swirling vines with a lower left scene of a deer with antlers; deer stands near flowers, stream and a tall grass with tiny leaves that blow through the air.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Deer Flowers Tall grass
- Work Type
- tea cloths
- Location
- Autonomous Region of Madeira >> Portugal
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1900.034.011
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Linen
- Technique
- Hand-embroidery Shadow-work Open-work Textural embroidery
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Marghab Linens Ltd. was founded in 1933 on the island of Madeira, off the coast of Portugal, by Emile and Vera Marghab. The women of the island were introduced to hand embroidery in the mid-1800s and began to specialize in the art. Vera designed all of the linens, and had high quality expectations for the women that worked for her company. The linens gained a great reputation and are of high value today.
