Valance, Medium: silk embroidery on linen foundation Technique: embroidered on plain weave, Wide valance of linen in two parts, joined horizontally by a narrow band of ribbon. Lower half is embroidered with horizontal rows of stylized leaves, almost square in form, alternately red and green, with borders of smaller leaves. The upper section has one border of the same leaf design., Dodecanese, Rhodes, Greece, 18th-19th century, embroidery & stitching, Valance