Two strips, wide, of tunic border, sewn together. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. White ground, red, yellow, blue and brown designs. Tree or floral, geometric motives. 36 inches by 30 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Megara, Attica, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
GREECE: Megara?
Culture or time period:
European
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)