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Sankt Valentin (Saint Valentine)
Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, rayon, silk, wool, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton in padded satin stitches; laid work and couching · 1996
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen and cotton in back and padded overcast stitches; a variety of laid work and couching; coiling · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, hemp, silk, and cotton in a variety of laid work and couching with overcast and buttonhole bars · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in back, buttonhole, darning, overcast, padded overcast; Roumanian, running, satin, and stem stitches; a variety of laid work and couching · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, hemp, cotton, horsehair, and silver beads in detached buttonhole, detached trammed buttonhole, and bullion knot stitches; a variety of laidwork and couching, buttonhole and overcast bars; coiling in lazy squaw stitch; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered in overcast stitches; beaded · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and silk in laidwork and couching · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

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Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and cotton threads in buttonhole stitches; laidwork and couching · 1987
Art Institute of Chicago

Das andere Land (The Other Land)
Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1986
Art Institute of Chicago

Wie das Gras (Like the Grass)
Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, satin, long and short, padded satin and variations on buttonhole stitches; French knots; laid work and couching; glass beads · 1977
Art Institute of Chicago

La Matinata (Morning Song)
Lissy Funk
Linen, plain weave; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen, silk, and cotton in padded satin, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1975
Art Institute of Chicago