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Embroiderers' Guild of WA > Records

GENERAL EMBROIDERY, PICTURE

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c. 1940

Overview

A stylistic design of a countryside scene with a lake in the foreground. This is a woven and coloured panel which was produced for tourists to take home as a momento of their travels. The picture has some over embroidery. Of the Meiji era.
Embroidered picture of countryside. Meiji era - Japanese art/culture
see Conservation Documentation from G Ashford on USB

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-78-2018.8

Width

277 mm

Height or length

390 mm

Year

Embroiderers' Guild of WA

Embroiderers' Guild of WA

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