Handkerchief of natural hand-spun, hand-woven linen batiste with detailed floral embroidery
- Title
- Handkerchief of natural hand-spun, hand-woven linen batiste with detailed floral embroidery
- LC Subject
- accessories (object genre)
- Description
- Handkerchief of natural hand-spun, hand-woven linen batiste with detailed floral embroidery; Appenzell embroidery; rounded, square shape with open-work ovals at each corner filled with a variety of scrolling flowers; edges are trimmed in scrolling floral embroidery; center area is plain; scalloped and petaled edge; extremely intricate embroidery-work.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Decorative scrolling flowers
- Work Type
- handkerchiefs
- Location
- Appenzell >> Appenzell >> Appenzell Inner Rhodes >> Appenzell Innerrhoden >> Switzerland
- Date
- 1820/1829
- Identifier
- 0000.030.001
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Linen Batiste
- Technique
- Whitework Embroidery Satin stitch Open-work Seed stitch
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
