Cover, Chair Seat
- Object Name:
- Cover, Chair Seat
- Object ID:
- 2002.625.02
- Date:
- 1860-1900
- Description:
- Chair seat cover. Machine-manufactured red wool plain-woven flannel of Z-twist single yarns, embroidered with three-ply S-twist worsted wool yarns of two shades of blue, green, brown, black, white, red, orange, and yellow. Hand-stitched needlepoint using continental stitches of a scene of a girl in a blue dress lying on a bench, resting her head on a red pillow, with a dog and hat on the ground below her surrounded by shrubs and a tree. Backed with a 14.5" x 18" piece of brown linen cambric hand whipstitched on three sides to a border of the red wool flannel. One side open, with remnants of black cotton sewing thread. All edges finished with 0.25" machine-stitched French seams.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool
Linen
Cotton - Dimensions:
- H-2.5 W-20.5 L-19.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Found in collection.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Wool, Linen, Cotton, Needlework, Embroidery, Needlepoint, Decoration, Interior, Chairs
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