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embroidered border
Textile

embroidered border

late 19th-mid 20th Century

This narrow length of fabric has been embroidered with a geometric pattern. The label attached reads "2nd border worked also in Lady Egerton's embroidery school after or during Turco-Greco war.". Th...

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Embroidered border
Textile

Embroidered border

late 19th-mid 20th Century

This item is a narrow length of fabric embroidered with geometric patterns, probably originally intended to form some kind of border. An original hand written label accompanies the item, which may or...

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scrapbook
Textile

scrapbook

Pesel, Louisa F (1947)

c.1903-1947

A scrapbook compiled by Louisa Pesel, possibly after her return from Athens in the first decade of the twentieth century, continuing up to her death in 1947. The album contains attached and loose item...

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towel scarf
Textile

towel scarf

c. 1906

This item is embroidered at both ends with 25cm deep stylised carnation sprigs, symmetrically arranged on a central stem. The patterning techniques include double darning stitch, fishbone stitch and ...

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