Pillow top

Museum number:
2-62867
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
4004 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Pillow Top: Needlepoint and beading. Wool yarns make dark green ground with center multicolored floral and leaf motif circled by purple laurel wreath. Outer border of baroque beaded design in black, white, grey. Some beads on one center flower. Back is made from black sateen.20 1/2” square. Made before 1875 by Myra White mother of women who wore 3976-3977. Some mending spots.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pillows
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 21 inches and width 21 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pillow top, accession number 2-62867, described as Pillow Top: Needlepoint and beading. Wool yarns make dark green ground with center multicolored floral and leaf motif circled by purple laurel wreath. Outer border of baroque beaded design in black, white, grey. Some beads on one center flower. Back is made from black sateen.20 1/2” square. Made before 1875 by Myra White mother of women who wore 3976-3977. Some mending spots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pillow top, accession number 2-62867, described as Pillow Top: Needlepoint and beading. Wool yarns make dark green ground with center multicolored floral and leaf motif circled by purple laurel wreath. Outer border of baroque beaded design in black, white, grey. Some beads on one center flower. Back is made from black sateen.20 1/2” square. Made before 1875 by Myra White mother of women who wore 3976-3977. Some mending spots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pillow top, accession number 2-62867, described as Pillow Top: Needlepoint and beading. Wool yarns make dark green ground with center multicolored floral and leaf motif circled by purple laurel wreath. Outer border of baroque beaded design in black, white, grey. Some beads on one center flower. Back is made from black sateen.20 1/2” square. Made before 1875 by Myra White mother of women who wore 3976-3977. Some mending spots.

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