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Long Quilting Sampler with Rebus at Top
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Date: 19th century
Description: Silk embroidery on cotton foundation; embroidered in cross, long-armed cross, running, satin, back, and eyelet stitches, with withdrawn element work with needle made fillings, on plain weave foundation.
Language: Spanish [Mexico]
Repository: Bequest of Gertrude M. Oppenheimer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Tags: 19th-century, embroidery, fabrics, Mexico, quilts, Spanish, women
Bands of pattern. Rebus (pictogram) at top and a double-headed eagle in Aztec stitch in the middle.