Runner, Table
- Object Name:
- Runner, Table
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.65
- Date:
- 1930-1947
- Description:
- Table Runner. Hand-woven linen in natural and yellow colors. Woven with plain stripes alternating with bands that have ribs of the yellow in a double weave technique. The ends have a broad border of the plain weave, with embroidered diamond motifs worked in a darning stitch in brown, green, and golden yellow silk. The weaver did not keep an even tension, and the sides of the runner are wavy.
- Material:
- Textile
Linen
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-9 L-25 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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