Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Apron (Romania), early 20th century

  Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

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  Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

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  Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

  Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

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  Bookpaper, Art Nouveau Pattern, 1966

  Decorative paper design, pattern with motifs derived from Art Nouveau repeated in red, blue, and violet on white background.

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  Darning Sampler (England), 1800

  Handkerchief embroidered with five darning crosses on sheer linen. The initials FR and HW surmonted by two crowns, and the date 1800 are worked in black silk; the crosses in…

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  Textile, Piano Keys, ca. 1966

  Apparel fabric with three alternating stripes of black, hot pink and green and black rectangles.

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  Darning Sampler (England), 1809

  A white rose on a stem with leaves and buds in the center and surrounded by eight crosses of darning stitches. Hemmed on four sides.

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  Darning Sampler (England), 1785

  Darning sampler with five pattern crosses. Hemmed on all four sides. Five holes were cut from the plain weave foundation fabric and the holes darned to simulate five different weaves;…