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TYPE: collar and serviette
TECHNIQUE: cut work Hedebo
Cut off shift collar and serviette with cut work Hedebo. The curved shape of the collar represents a transition from rectangular shift collars to the neck shaped collars of bourgeois dresses. It is likely to have been embroidered in the period 1850-1865. 1920 is probably the correct date of the serviette. The collar is an example of early cut work hedebo done in a strict composition. The two textiles have many similarities at first glance, but a closer look reveals similar patterns embroidered with different techniques.
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• The round cut spaces of the collar are embroidered with a K border and ordinary beading loops. The fillings of the serviette are ordinary beading loops
• The scallop- shaped edge of the collar consists of beading loops and two rows of tilted scallops, whereas the serviette is finished with two rows of beading loops and a row of ordinary buttonhole scallops with picots
• The six picots in the circles in the drop-shaped cut spaces of the collar
• The rather uneven placement of drops on the edge of the collar, which might suggest that the needlewoman was not trained in cut work Hedebo