Embroidery

Embroidery on beige linen. The subject is a gentleman (shepherd?) and a woman (shepherdess) with five sheep, a dog and a dormant cow. Calling the figures there are trees and flowers. The pattern is made of silk mainly in schattérsöm, the middle in some flowers embroidered with knots, some leaves in lay stitch. The sky in the background is sewn by metal coated silk thread (probably silver) in lay stitch. The colours in the embroidery are (at the back) different shades of light blue, blue green, dark green, light yellow, green tinted yellow, brown, yellow brown, beige, black, two shades of very bright red (pink). The silk thread was white in the man’s hat and shoes; it has been a black-colored yarn that, due to a lot of chemicals when dyeing, did not cope. Small hole in the upper edge. Brown along the edges. The wall seam over a few metal threads in one side is gone. Very pale. Knut Adrian Andersson’s catalogue: 1: 25.12 Embroidery of silk and metal thread on the grey bottom (= shepherd o shepherdess) 32 x 20 cm. 1700. Known by the Gothenburg Museum April 3, 1880. Is a piece of a bonade. From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958: "Embroidery m. silk 1870 Dimensions. 32 x 19 cm; embroidery as above; shepherd and shepherd together animals; ngt defect."