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embroidered trim
Object/Artifact
A length of narrow decorative ribbon/trim on a white ground patterned in green, wound into a loose coil. The design runs lengthwise as a continuous floral vine — multi-petaled blossoms with leaves and connecting stems in green. The band has finished woven selvedges along both edges and cut, frayed ends with loose green and white threads trailing from one end. The reverse (visible where the coil turns) shows the pattern in reverse colorway with weft floats, consistent with a figured woven ribbon. It reads as a cut length or remnant of yardage rather than a finished article.
2025.1.50
Sewing materials belonging to María A. Arús Caraballo
The Cabrera Arús family collection
María A. Arús Caraballo collection
2025.1
MAKER: Unknown; unmarked. No selvedge lettering, label, or maker's mark is present. DATE / PERIOD: Not marked; undetermined. Decorative woven floral trim of this kind is broadly twentieth-century; the sheened green pattern wefts (suggesting rayon or mercerized cotton) are consistent with a mid-twentieth-century date, but this is an estimate. ORIGIN: Place of manufacture undetermined (no country-of-origin mark). Acquisition: Cuba.
Fair
María A. Arús Caraballo
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
purchase
The cut ends and retained loose threads suggest a remnant kept for future sewing rather than a finished item, an inference consistent with a household practice of saving usable trimmings but not separately documented here.