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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3710998, member: 8267"]It looks like the holes you have shown might have been caused by someone using tacks or nails to mount the fabric to something. The head of the nails could have caused that smearing of the blue pigment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The design appears to have been stamped or printed on the velvet, as [USER=1476]@Debora[/USER] has suggested.</p><p><br /></p><p>The better photos show clearly that the outlines are done with a decorative chain stitch. A hand cranked chain stitch embroidery machine, the Cornely machine, was invented in the early 1860s. So it would have been possible to create this piece as early as that. But I agree that it is probably not that old. It is my feeling that it would more likely be early 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/tools/embroidery/cornely-machine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/tools/embroidery/cornely-machine" rel="nofollow">https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/tools/embroidery/cornely-machine</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The chain stitch of the Cornely machine was designed to imitate hand done tambour embroidery. Here is the work of a modern, 3-row Cornely machine:</p><p><img src="https://www.barattocornely.com/en/drimage/520/251/95/sample_2_cornely_n_thumbnail.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a video of an antique machine in operation:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Yl4OQich2PU[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3710998, member: 8267"]It looks like the holes you have shown might have been caused by someone using tacks or nails to mount the fabric to something. The head of the nails could have caused that smearing of the blue pigment. The design appears to have been stamped or printed on the velvet, as [USER=1476]@Debora[/USER] has suggested. The better photos show clearly that the outlines are done with a decorative chain stitch. A hand cranked chain stitch embroidery machine, the Cornely machine, was invented in the early 1860s. So it would have been possible to create this piece as early as that. But I agree that it is probably not that old. It is my feeling that it would more likely be early 20th century. [URL]https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/tools/embroidery/cornely-machine[/URL] The chain stitch of the Cornely machine was designed to imitate hand done tambour embroidery. Here is the work of a modern, 3-row Cornely machine: [IMG]https://www.barattocornely.com/en/drimage/520/251/95/sample_2_cornely_n_thumbnail.jpg[/IMG] And a video of an antique machine in operation: [MEDIA=youtube]Yl4OQich2PU[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]
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