European Embroidered Textiles
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 1,000 embroidered textiles which broadly date from 1575 to the present. This collection contains various items of embroidered textiles, nearly 300 of which belong to the Burrell Collection. The earliest item is a fragment of the robe of Saint Louis IX of France embroidered with gilt metal thread. The largest pieces are the Keeping Glasgow in Stitches banners made in 1990 to celebrate Glasgow's year as European City of Culture. Two areas of particular significance include 17th century embroidery, such as canvas work panels, raised work panels and crewelwork hangings, and Glasgow Style embroideries by Jessie Newbery, Ann Macbeth and others from the early 20th century. There is also a substantial set of samplers dating from around 1640 to 1950. Later 19th century embroidery techniques represented in this collection include infants' clothes decorated with exquisite Ayrshire white-work and a small set of Leek embroideries. Embroidery is a textile technique that uses threads and sometimes beads to stitch a decorative pattern onto a cloth.
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