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Source Description
This woven linen textile is embroidered with a cascading pattern of dusty pink, mauve, and navy blue flowers. The embroiderer created this design with dyed silk thread, outlining the shapes in black and then filling in the designs with dense stitches. Textiles with this composition were made across the Mediterranean Sea in the 1800s, and were used as scarves or towels.
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103832
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Scarf
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object
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103832
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object
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Scarf
description
This woven linen textile is embroidered with a cascading pattern of dusty pink, mauve, and navy blue flowers. The embroiderer created this design with dyed silk thread, outlining the shapes in black and then filling in the designs with dense stitches. Textiles with this composition were made across the Mediterranean Sea in the 1800s, and were used as scarves or towels.
date
1800s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79509135
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Embroidery
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 173.4 x 46 cm (68 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
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Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer
accession
1921.92
Source extras
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Linen, silk, dye
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Scarf, 1800s. Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer. Linen, silk, dye; overall: 173.4 x 46 cm (68 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Charles William Wason, 1921.920
collection
T - Islamic
didYouKnow
This example was displayed in one of the CMA’s earliest exhibitions, 1923’s <em>Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Oriental Embroideries</em> in 1923.
citations
citation
"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 8, no. 9 (1921): 138-41.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 139
citation
G. U. [Gertrude Underhill]. “An Exhibition of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Oriental Embroideries.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 10, no. 9 (1923).
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157–58
creditline
Gift of Mrs. Charles William Wason
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2026-05-29 05:36:10.914000
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103832
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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Linen, silk, dye
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