Embroidery

Embroidery on beige linen (according to the earliest cataloging gray). The subject is two women sitting on the grass under a tree. At the sides and in the grass are flowers (tulip, carnation, onion plant with one-sided fence with bell-shaped flowers, daisy?) and insect and butterfly. The pattern is made of silk mainly in schattérsöm, the tree in plate stitch, the middle in some flowers with knots. The sky that forms a background is sewn from metal coated silk thread (probably silver) in lay stitch. The colors in the embroidery are (on the back) different blue shades, blue-green, light green, dark green, light yellow, yellow, different brown and beige shades, blue-toned red, two shades of very bright red (pink), yellow-green. Drawn or printed brown lines can be seen for the shape of the pattern on the linen fabric. Description in Knut Adrian Andersson’s catalogue I: 25: 11: Embroidery of metal wire o white and yellow silk on the grey bottom. (34 x 20; 5 cm), is a piece of a Bönad [Bönad is bonad misspelled.] fr. The 17th century. Sk. by Göteborg Museum geom A. W. Malm ¾ 1880 Broken in one lower corner. Brown along the edges. The wall seam over a couple of metal threads on one side is gone. Very pale. From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958: "Embroidery m. metal wire 1870 Dimensions: 3.4 x 20.5 cm; silk and metal wire embroidery on linen; two women sitting under a tree, ngt defect." Lappcatalog: 73