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Embroidered Handkerchief
1880–99
- Medium
- Plain weave piña, silk embroidery
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- Average: 32.4 x 33 cm (12 3/4 x 13 in.)
- Culture
- Philippines
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Livingston Ireland Jr. in memory of his mother, Mrs. P. W. Harvey
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This square handkerchief is made of piña fiber cloth in plain weave. All four edges are finished with a hand-embroidered cotton border of small repeating floral motifs. One corner bears the embroidered monogram “L. C. H.,” the initials of its first owner, Lilian Converse Hanna.
