Featured Image: Embroidery sample (probably Lyon, France); ca. 1770; satin, stem and knot stitches embroidered in silk on silk cut voided supplementary warp pile (velvet); paper enclosure; H x W: 29 x 18 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.); Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund; 1932-1-14; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution
