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Embroidery Pattern with Seven Six-pointed Stars and Four Corner Pieces by Albrecht Dürer

Embroidery Pattern with Seven Six-pointed Stars and Four Corner Pieces

Albrecht Dürer · before 1521

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Palette

Linen
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.8:1
Taupe
 31% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1
Iron
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Smoke
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.6:1
Putty
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1
Stone
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.7:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Albrecht Dürer
German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg
Date
before 1521
Type
Print
Medium
Woodcut
Size
sheet: 12 7/8 x 10 1/8 in. (32.7 x 25.7 cm) image: 10 9/16 x 8 1/4 in. (26.8 x 21 cm)
Period
15th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 57, colourfulness 7

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1918. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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