Towel

· 19th century

Towel

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

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

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