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This intricately worked dressing table cover is made of a shite cotton ground decorated with a central motif of a basket filled with flowers surrounded by an open wreath of feather vining wth a bow at the base. The fruit and flowers and feathered vines are trapunto work: a quilting technique that involves stuffing embroidered designs with cotton batting to create a dimensional surface.
case furniture
table linens
cotton (textile)
quilting
whitework
trapunto
baskets (containers)
childhood
floral patterns
Cover, Furnishing
Cotton
Whitework
Floral
Fruit Basket
Childhood
Quilted
Stuffed
Corded
Cover, Furnishing
Bedell, Penelope Thurston (Maker)
43 (W) (inches)
1930.988
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