Design for Embroidered or Woven Textile with Red Stylized Flowers
Anonymous, Spanish, 18th century Spanish
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Drawing with design for an embroidered or woven textile, possibly Spanish (?), from the second half of the eighteenth century, with a bundle of stylized flowers, flower buds and green stems and leaves. The open flowers contain two layers of petals: the larger ones colored with red, and the smaller ones with white; the pistils are colored with shades of green. The flower buds are colored with red, some have highlights in pink and others in a type of copper-brown. This type of flowers with layers of flowy petals is common in Spanish textile design from the early-18th century and through the 19th, in embroidered and woven textiles as well as lacework. They were used in textiles for borders, covers or shawls, and other textiles for interiors.
