Embroidered Postage Stamp, Switzerland, 2000

Swiss postage stamp, 2000, machine-made embroidery. Swiss postage stamp, 2000, machine-made embroidery. Courtesy Textile Research Centre, Leiden, acc. no. TRC 2016.0281.

In the year 2000, the Swiss postal service issued a machine embroidered stamp to commemorate the St Gallen embroidery industry. This was the first postage stamp that was actually made as a form of embroidery. The stamp is attached to a first-day cover and housed in the collection of the Textile Research Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

See also the entry on embroidery and postage stamps.

TRC online catalogue (retrieved 23 October 2016).

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