Like every other Jewish person on the planet I know that because Purim has just passed that Passover is looming over the horizon. I have done one of my annual getting ready to start Passover work tasks. I took down our previous vintage tablecloth kitchen curtain assemblage and put together a new one. Out new curtain is made up of a cloth I had received from the collection of my friend Alix's late mother. It's Central European styled embroidery done on a jacquard woven linen cloth. It is counted embroidery that was likely done on a roughly woven fabric that was basted to the jacquard woven cloth. You can't do counted stitchery on jacquard woven material. It is a little hard for me to date this cloth. The design is very old fashioned. I am not sure about the dating of the base fabric. When i first received this piece I had thought that it might have been unfinished. There is no embroidery at all in the top 1/4 of the piece. I now wonder if it was actually designed to be a kit...
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