U.S. Trapunto with Naval Symbols.
This is an American trapunto featuring an American bald eagle with arrows and olive branches, three United States flags, an American shield and a scroll with E Pluribus Unum with 13 stars in the background from the early 1900s.
A trapunto is an ornately embroidered commemorative fabric. Making a trapunto involves the addition of padding behind a piece of silk, upon which elaborate designs are embroidered to create a three-dimensional image. It was not uncommon for trapuntos of the time to contain many patriotic symbols.
Many trapuntos were made and sold by the George Washington Co. in Yokohama, Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their market included American soldiers and sailors stationed in the Far East during the Spanish American War, the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Great White Fleet.
Generic trapuntos without specific military and naval symbols like this example were kept in stock for immediate purchase. Visiting servicemen would send them home for framing as a service memento.
Similar to other trapuntos in the Zaricor Flag Collection:
ZFC0150, ZFC0284, ZFC0289, ZFC0742, ZFC1441, ZFC1489, ZFC2219 and ZFC2258
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Item is Framed
