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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  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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  Greeting Card

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  Textile, 1940–49

  Sample of printed silk in shades of red, black for outlining and flecks of the white ground showing. Design is an allover flower pattern, perhaps wild rose or similar blossoms,…

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  Ashtray

  Square plate of clear glass with imbedded bubbles; Brown and yellow trim around edge and in center; Central farmer figure

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  Gloves (Finland), ca. 1875

  Dark red gloves in small, tight stitches with a broad band of addorsed birds with stylized floral motif between in pink and yellow in the palm area. Narrow band between…

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  Ashtray (Sweden), 1942

  Nearly vertical sides, flattened to form oval. White body, treated with metal oxides: cloudy greenish gray outside, streaky yellow and brown converging into pale blue area at the bottom inside.…

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  Textile (Albania), late 19th–early 20th century

  Horizontal bands of varying widths in heavy white cotton wefts alternating with bands of a much finer open weave with yellow silk wefts. Warp is fine white cotton threads. Three…

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  Textile (Albania), late 19th–early 20th century

  Two lengths of sheer cotton seamed down longest edge. Spaced bands of lozenges and triangles inlaid with heavier cotton thread. Deep borders edged with openwork bands at either end. Twisted…