Cleveland Museum of Art

Scarf

Date

1800s

Medium

Linen, silk, dye

Culture

Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This woven linen textile is embroidered with a cascading pattern of dusty pink, mauve, and navy blue flowers. The embroiderer created this design with dyed silk thread, outlining the shapes in black and then filling in the designs with dense stitches. Textiles with this composition were made across the Mediterranean Sea in the 1800s, and were used as scarves or towels. This example was displayed in one of the CMA’s earliest exhibitions, 1923’s Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Oriental Embroideries in 1923.

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