Twill-woven, cream-coloured, silk (?) fragment, possibly from bath towel. The textile is decorated with 3 embroidered floral sprays above an undulating border-line. The embroidery is worked in pale blue, pink, cream and brown silk thread, as well as silver-coloured metal-wrapped thread and metal strip. It appears as if an additional piece of the same cloth has been sewn on below the border.
textile fragment; textile
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