Rare Linen Raised Embroidered Table Runner

This 44” x 40” white linen table runner is ornamented with pert raised embroidered red and blue flowers in a satin stitch known in Hungary as boszorkanyos. It is a very old and rare item from Erdely, Transylvania; we are guessing it dates back to 1890, and the most amazing thing about it is that the thread is handmade and the back is as beautiful as the front. Rare Linen Raised Embroidered Table Runner The visual beauty of the table runner has a playfulness to it—it’s as if the flowers are holding hands to form a ring-around-the-posy circle within a border set with blossoms reaching toward the center. A daisy-like flower crowns the very middle of the tablecloth to give it a youthful appeal. See Our Antique Textiles in Person This is but one of many luxurious one-of-a-kind antiques we have in our Pensacola atelier, as we have row upon row of textiles that include everything from antique French heirloom linens and primitive Austro-Hungarian Empire textiles to Art Deco and Bohemian specim