Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Nightcap (France), 18th century

  Tall man’s cap of brilliant yellow silk embroidered with floral vines in silver metallic yarns. Lower edge turns up in the bicorne style.

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  Tile (USA), ca. 1880

  Blue. Framed by plants, or swan floats on a pond.

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  Nightcap (France), ca. 1730

  Man’s nightcap with a rounded crown and turned-up brim. The fabric has a green silk satin ground with a woven pattern of flowers and arabesques in cream silk. The brim…

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  Nightcap (France), 18th century

  Man’s nightcap made of four panels of undyed ribbed cotton with fairly deep cuff, piped along four seams and top of cuff with blue silk; topped with silk and metallic…

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  Nightcap, 18th century

  Tall man’s nightcap with deep bicorne cuff in salmon-colored ribbed silk, brocaded with a symmetrical floral design in silver metallic yarns and blue, green, yellow, pink, and white silks.

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  Nightcap, 18th century

  Man’s cap of yellow silk taffeta made up of four panels with a deep turn-up cuff. Embroidered with symmetrical chinoiserie floral sprays in satin stitch in blue ombre silk, and…

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Long band composed of three shorter pieces stitched together. All-over embroidery in irregularly interlaced pattern of bands striped in three shades of brown. One selvage present, other long edge cut…

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  Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Natural, brown, and rust-red strips of plain woven raffia stitched together on long edges, finished with buttonhole embroidery and raffia pompoms.

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  Fragment (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century

  Fragment of bark cloth with a center field of alternating black and natural triangles, with borders on two sides of natural color with a single black stripe in the center.