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About this work
This woven linen textile is decorated with silk-thread embroidery in several colours. The initial composition layout consists of dark red and navy blue florals along three sides of of the textile, with a "pinwheel" in the fourth. A second layer of embroideries seems to have been added, filling all of the empty spaces with additional florals and small medallions in an orange and slate blue colour palette.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment, 1800s. Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer. Linen, silk, dye; overall: 91.4 x 70.5 cm (36 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Chester C. Bolton, 1940.356
