Antique Purple, Green, and Neutral Wool Woven Cross-Stitch Table Runner Antique

Antique Purple, Green, and Neutral Wool Woven Cross-Stitch Table Runner AntiquePurple Green and Neutral Tone Woven Table Runner hand stitched wool table runner or ecclesiastical style textile, very likely midlate 19th century (ca. 18601900), and almost certainly European, with strong indicators of Central Eastern European folk needlework tradition (Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, or Ukrainian Bereg cross stitch), or alternatively Germanic Alpine influence. Stitching: Worked entirely in counted cross stitch on an even weave ground >

a hooded friar or preacher waves a banner embalzoned with Latin phrases like "So much evil could religion persuade"

Back handwriting is likely early to mid 20th C either by artist or collector

Horiztonal Oblong Watercolor Painting of a Cottage (Purples and Pinks)

working key

“PAROISSIEN ROMAIN… ÉDITION BIJOU”

consecrate in 1919)

Rectilinear with rosette and ribbon-carved borders

oak or walnut

Veuve Clicquot

and to Queen Mary

decorative vide-poches

and construction suggest late 19th to early 20th-century production