A border of linen embroidered with red silk background upon which birds fronting vases with plants (probably so-called tree of life) small animals and other fomrs are outlined in brown sillk (which may have originally have been blue stitches. Two outer narrow borders with leafy ornato. Design is evidently a repeated one, of which this specimen is half.

Linen border, 17th century

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Title
Linen border
Role
Artist
Accession Number
21.159
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A border of linen embroidered with red silk background upon which birds fronting vases with plants (probably so-called tree of life) small animals and other fomrs are outlined in brown sillk (which may have originally have been blue stitches. Two outer narrow borders with leafy ornato. Design is evidently a repeated one, of which this specimen is half.