White cotton eyelet table runner

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A white cotton eyelet table runner. The table runner is composed of an oval-shaped panel of white cotton with multiple rows of machine eyelet embroidery. There is a central row of embroidered flowers and on either side of that is eyelet embroidery with flowers and cutwork petals. The outer rows feature curved embroidered lines and cutwork circles. Joined to the central oval linen panel with cutwork insertion lace is a 2” wide cotton ruffle with a scalloped edge that has cutwork circles that follow the scalloping. The underside is the reverse side of the pattern and there is no label.

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