This is a lovely piece of 18th C European needlework, brilliant true- colored, made of vegetable dyed threads on very fine open weave handspun linen, having pulled work in the flower centers, metallic threads within the flower stems and a symmetrical block pattern, Spanish or Italian, probably was a piece of curtain or bed covering; Condition: Very good with some stitch loss in a glass frame with blue matting which does not do this piece justice, measures 12 1/2" x 15 1/2 "
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