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17/18th Century Skyros Bedsheet Border, Greek Islands
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17/18th Century Skyros Bedsheet Border, Greek Islands

18th century
Sold 1 January 1900 · James Cohen Antique Carpets
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A fine and early silk embroidery depicting broad shouldered soldiers, a falconer, the Tree of Life and a multitude of birds. An exquisitely charming needlework and a rare opportunity to be able to buy one.

Frame size is 68cm wide by 50cm tall or 2'3" x 1'8"

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James Cohen Antique Carpets has dated this Skyros Embroidered Textile Border to the 1700s.

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A fine and early silk embroidery depicting broad shouldered soldiers, a falconer, the Tree of Life and a multitude of birds. An exquisitely charming needlework and a rare opportunity to be able to buy one.

Frame size is 68cm wide by 50cm tall or 2'3" x 1'8"

Date of Manufacture

James Cohen Antique Carpets has dated this Skyros Embroidered Textile Border to the 1700s.

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James Cohen Antique Carpets
James Cohen Antique Carpets
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Specialist in antique rugs, carpets and textiles 16th-19th centuries

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An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO
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Archive I An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO

17/18th Century Skyros Bedsheet Border, Greek Islands

Archive II An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. View II
Archive III An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. View III
Archive IV An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. View IV
Archive V An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. View V
Archive VI An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs. View VI
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An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs.
17/18th Century Skyros Bedsheet Border, Greek Islands
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An antique hand-embroidered linen textile fragment from Skyros featuring red and green silk threads depicting human figures, birds, and floral motifs.
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  • ObjectAntique Textiles
  • Period18th century
  • StyleGreek Folk Art
  • MaterialLinen, Silk
  • ColourCream, Red, Green
  • MotifsAnthropomorphic figures, Stylised birds, Floral sprigs, Geometric borders

This antique Greek island bedsheet border fragment dates from around 1700 and exemplifies traditional folk art needlework. The piece consists of a cream-coloured linen backing decorated with hand embroidery in red and green silk threads. The visible needlework depicts broad-shouldered soldiers, a falconer, anthropomorphic figures, the Tree of Life, stylised birds, floral sprigs, and geometric borders. The visible frame measures 68 cm wide by 50 cm tall. This textile fragment suits interior placement above a sideboard in a living room or hallway as a wall-mounted decorative artwork. Traditional antique wall hangings of this type introduce texture and historical visual interest into contemporary domestic interiors. The hand-stitched motifs provide an authentic decorative focus when displayed in a traditional or eclectic room setting. Clean upkeep involves gentle dusting or professional conservation cleaning suitable for antique textiles.

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Skyros bedsheet borders are traditional embroidered linen panels produced in the Greek Islands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, featuring stylised figures and floral motifs influenced by Byzantine and Ottoman design.

These embroideries typically utilise hand-spun linen or cotton ground fabric worked with vegetable-dyed silk threads using surface darning and satin stitching techniques.

Authentic period examples exhibit hand-spun ground cloth, natural dye colour variation, and traditional motif arrangements without modern synthetic fibres or machine stitching.

Framed textile fragments function as wall art, bringing historical texture, pattern, and colour to minimalist or eclectic spaces when positioned above furniture.

Mount the textile on acid-free board behind UV-filtering glass, and position the frame away from direct sunlight, radiators, and high humidity.
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