cloth
- Museum number
- 2018,8033.1
- Description
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Message cloth, machine woven cream cotton with embroidery in red thread depicting a woman in traditional costume wearing clogs and a stiffened cap with upturned flaps at the sides; she carries a wood bucket in one hand and a cloth in the other and walks towards a table with large wood bucket on top. The embroidered motto in German reads: 'Erkenne an der Wasserbank / ob das ganze Haus ist blank.' The edges scalloped and oversewn in blanket stitch.
- Production date
- 1920-1940
- Dimensions
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Length: 91 centimetres
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Width: 55 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by J. Rudoe for £108 for the two cloths (2018,8033.1 and 2) at the shop in the Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest in May 2017.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2018,8033.1