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Message:: [QUOTE="birgittaw, post: 9655, member: 28"]Two questions on this piece, which measures about 16x24 or so and is mounted with masking tape to a piece of paneling. From auction many years ago here in SC. Burn test says back is cotton. Didn't burn the embroidery though but feels like either silk or silky cotton on the back which is tightly done fine stitches in rows, almost looks machine made. As near as I can tell, this is stumpwork? Is that right? Realizing that doesn't necessarily date it, I believe this to be Russian -- well, in the Russian language -- possibly done in a Russian settlement in the US as opposed to the Soviet Union. I've had it longer than the return to Russia and the myriad old countries we have now. At first I thought Ukrainian, but it doesn't translate other the first word which is Cross. In Russian, it's better, basically saying, I think,  Christ (rather than Cross) Thee We Worship -- but the last word doesn't translate although it's possible I entered it incorrectly. владнко or владико. Vladik? [ATTACH=full]2231[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]2232[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]