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Garment or accessory
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This textile is densely covered with silk and metal thread embroidery, shells, and glass and metal beads. It has thick red fringes added on all sides. Its substrate (base layer) might be made from linen.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineGarment or accessory, 1800s. Probably southeastern Europe, Balkans. Silk, metal, dye, shells, glass, linen?; average: 76.2 x 25.4 cm (30 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1918.42
