Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (USA), 1827

  Sampler embroidered in red, black and blue on a white ground, with the alphabet and inscription Susanna Meck 1827 at the top, and many small detached motifs including animals, birds,…

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  Sampler (England), 17th century

  Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

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  Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

  Bisymmetrical leaf and plant forms embossed in gold on glazed brown ground.

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  Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

  Textured green paper imitating embossed leather. Darker brown pigment rubbed into crevices.

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  Imitation Leather (USA), 1908–10

  Four brown and green stripes with stylized decoration on brown glazed crackled ground. Resembles painted leather.

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  Embroidery Sample, 1875–1900

  Fragment of black, weft-ribbed silk cut at the bottom into three wide shallow scallops, in turn scalloped, with applied section of bottle green velvet; double row of couched gold cord…

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

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  Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

  Diaper of tiny close-set beads.

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  Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

  Close-set diaper of very small circles. Resembles lizard skin in the over-all apearance. Painted black.

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  Imitation Leather (Japan), ca. 1885

  Vertical rectangle. Approximately twenty emblems of different shapes arranged at random. Several of the motifs occur twice with either coloring or direction changed. Geometrical, foliate and mask designs are included.…