Pillowcase - with aristocratic embroidery

The edges of the obverse side of the pillowcase are embellished with nine uniform and separate flower-stems. The stalks on the stems, which issue from calyx-like motifs, cross each other, while three large “leaf-flowers”, small tulips, leaves and claspers issue from the stalks on each of the stems.

The fashioning of the jagged-edges leaves into flowers and the strong emphasis placed on them as against the tulips is a Hungarian adaption of a motif of Oriental origin. In the shaping and division into parts of the leaves, however, Turkish influence is still perceptible. In one corner along the open edge of the pillowcase, a small embellishment can be seen, probably a mark referring to the embroiderer. Along the three embroidered edges a straight embroidered line closes off the pattern.

The contouring of the motifs suggests that the pillowcase-panel originated in Upper Hungary.