Textile

Cover

29-201-461

From: Morocco

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-201-461
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Morocco
Section African
Materials Cotton
Technique Woven | Embroidered
Description

Table cover. For playing a game(?). Loosely woven white cotton; ends fringed. Embroidered design, mostly in cross stitch and outline, in shades of rose, yellow, purple, blue, green, black and brown, forming large blocks and bands. Rectangles of black cardboard with name in white, sewed on.

Length 119 cm
Width 90 cm
Credit Line Williams Moroccan Expedition; Talcott Williams and Sophia Wells Royce Williams, 1898

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