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Girl's dress with long sleeves, low waist and back fastening of white cotton, decorated with shirring, openwork and at the bottom with a very wide strip of English embroidery
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Girl's dress with long sleeves, low waist and back fastening of white cotton, decorated with shirring, openwork and at the bottom with a very wide strip of English embroidery

anonymous · c. 1909 · embroidering; Engels borduurwerk; drawn thread work; cotton (textile)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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A girl's dress of batiste, sewn with eyelet embroidery and decorated with a very wide strip of machine-made English embroidery; to be worn with a green moiré ribbon sash. Art Nouveau. Likely worn by Totie Six (born 1897).

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineMeisjesjurk met lange mouw, lage taille en achtersluiting van wit katoen, versierd met oprijgen, ajournaden en onderaan met een zeer brede strook Engels borduurwerk. c. 1909. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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