Cushion/ Pillow of woven cotton muslin with medallions at each end of embroidered red silk
- Title
- Cushion/ Pillow of woven cotton muslin with medallions at each end of embroidered red silk
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Donor
- Clark, Ava Milam, 1884-1976
- Description
- Cushion/ Pillow of woven cotton muslin with medallions at each end of embroidered red silk attached to the muslin with pleated blue-purple silk-satin damask; muslin is open across the length of the cylindrical pillow; medallions are stretched over wooden discs to hold the shape; red disc embroidery features characters/ writing at center surrounded by animals, birds, and foliage; surrounded by a linear geometric pattern in green, blue, pink, beige, taupe, and white silk with metallic threads. Korean pillow would be stuffed with natural materials like wood shavings.
- Motif
- Various birds, animals, pine tree, plant motif
- Work Type
- cushions
- Location
- South Korea
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Identifier
- 1975.006.001
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton Silk Metallic Threads
- Technique
- Pleats Embroidery Satin stitch
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University