Design for Embroidery with Series of Bundles with Exotic Flowers and Leaves

Drawing with a variety of design motifs for embroidery typical from the 19th century, which saw a revival of styles, including the Calssicism of Greece and Rome, Renaissance styles, Rococo and Neoclassicism. These revivals were linked to the "collector mania" that took place especially after 1850, and coincided with the Romantic movement in literature that saw in the past an escape from modernity. Some of the most common design motifs that emerged from this renewed interest in antiquarianism were naturalistic and floral motifs, including thin garlands and bundles, vases, classical musical instruments, and ribbons.

This drawing presents a variety of design motifs, some of them possibly for borders, all of them with stylized, possibly exotic flowers, and rendered with pastel colors. On the upper-left corner are three large stylized flowers, forming an 'L' shape, made up of interlacing motifs made up of strips of small pink dots that form the pistils and petals formed by a semicircle of small circles flanked by alternating elongated spikes and triangular shapes ending in zig-zagging lines, colored with yellow and greenish-yellow, linked together by a thin scalloping line with small shuttle-shaped flower buds colored with brown standing on it. The flower on the upper side of the sheet and the one on the left side are linked by two additional strips like these, and the interlacing motifs that form the pistils are flanked below by three stylized leaves with scalloped edges colored with green and outlined with brown.

Under the first motif are two small bundles made up of a stylized fruit motif, one pear-shaped and the other round, both executed with shades of pink and light greenish-yellow, and stemming from a branch with large leaves colored with two shades of green. To their right is an undulating garland of scrolling elongated leaves colored with two shades of green that interlace around a thin branch with stylized flowers made up of elongated petals with zig-zagging edges, colored with two shades of pink, around brown-and-yellow pistils with small blue dots, and with sepals colored with yellow, brown, and two sades of green. In the bottom is a horizontal undulating garland with stylized leaves colored with two shades of green and stylized flowers with bell-shaped bodies that end with rosettes, all colored with shades of blue and gray, around yellow pistils with red dots.

The right half of the sheet contains two designs. On the upper part is a semi-circular garland of stylized exotic flowers and leaves around a rosette with blue elongated petals and yellow pistils. The leaves are made up of irregular circles colored with shades of green, and the flowers are made up of semi-abstract teardrop shaped petals colored with red, orange, shades of pink and blue, and gray. On the lower-right corner is a semi-abstract motif created with elongated oval shapes, some of them interlacing with each other, and some circular motifs, colored with light brown, from which emerges a bundle of thin branches with elongated leaves colored with two shades of green, three large rosettes with pink petals and yellow pistils with red dots and flanked by small green shuttle shapes, and some small flower buds colored with pink and green. To the side, a smaller rosette of this type flanked by four leaves is shown at the end of a strip of interlacing oval motifs. This could be repeated several times to achieve the length desired on a particular piece.