Design for a Woven Border
Unknown Maker
Plants grow horizontally beside the lateral points of a lozenge containing two spade leaves and two calyxes growing from a bead. Motif is to alternate with another consisting of four calyxes surrounding a bead. Heart motifs grow from the upper and lower calyxes. Upper and lower framing stripes, one with row of beads.
Credit: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
c. 1810
Pen and black ink, brush and wash, graphite on paper
1909-13-57
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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