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  • Samples, Abbey Cloth, late 19th–early 20th century

    Thirteen swatches of Abbey Cloth in delft blue. Some with single, some with paired warps and wefts.

  • Tile (USA), ca. 1880

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

  • Border (England), 1835

    Large blue peony clustered with three gray and white daisies. Thin leaves are multi-shade brown flock, one base color, three other shades. Ground of diagonal thin yellow stripes under entire…

  • Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

    Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

  • Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

    Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

  • Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

    Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

  • Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

    Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

  • Samples (USA), ca. 1959

    Two textile samples, one piece of graph paper on perforated paper. At top, graph paper with handwritten illustration of weaving sequence; text at top: Cameo, Bertha Gray Hayes. At bottom…

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