Needlework Picture Depicting an Allegory of Music

· 17th century, about 1640

Needlework Picture Depicting an Allegory of Music

Probably linen, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave over bast fiber padding; embroidered with silk, silk-wrapped-metal-wire coils, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and feathers in bullion, buttonhole, detached twisted trammed buttonhole, encroaching Gobelin, individual back, raised stem and tent stitches; laid work and couching; embellished with mica

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

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