Shore

Wide shelf stretcher with three caps. Of red thin woolen fabric with a rugged surface (dressed?), decorated with pearl embroidery. The motif is berries with berries of white glass beads, stems of silver-colored metal beads (nickel?) and applied leaves of light brown velvet. Three motifs, one on each cape. (Possibly it should imagine grape bunches that were a popular motif on embroidery in the mid-18th century.) Nerve embroidered rows in silk with a langette stitch, extremely firm, ribbon in black and beige snare mackerel work. The back of light brown (probably earlier red blue) cotton cloth. At the top the front and back are sewn together with a sewing machine. Dating to after 1860 made on the basis that the sewing machine that had started to be produced in the 1850s became more dispersed at the time. Nails along the upper edge. Black-colored spots around the metal beads in several places. The back very dirty. Literature: Fleming/Lindvall-Nordin m fl, Roses and violets in cross stitch, LT Stockholm 1983, p. 41-42. Fredlund, Jane, Great book about life sooner, ICA publisher Västerås 1981, p. 98-105. Rosenknopp and yllestopp, exhibition catalog from the Helsinki Stadsmuseum 1986. Westerdahl, Elisabeth, Beaded ornaments, from Antik and Auction No. 4 1994. See also image on piphylla in the Culture 1945 p. 99. From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958: Two shelves, pearls, etc. (a) Dimensions: 56 x 27 cm; red fabric, embroidery of black and white yarn, glass and nickel pearls, etc.