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  • Sculpture Grasshopper, late 19th century

    Figure of a green grasshopper with realistic touches of other color, transparent wings.

  • Sidewall (France), 1950

    Chintz pattern: Stylized floral and foliate motifs printed in blues, greens and yellows on pink ground.

  • Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

    Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

  • Poncho (Peru), 18th–19th century

    Shoulder poncho of two lengths of striped wool with bound slit for opening. In red, pink, purple, blue, yellow, and white wool and cotton on brown wool wefts, doubled. Multi-colored…

  • Stole (France), 1915–20

    Long stole with triangular middle-section ending in elaborate tassel of metal, jet and silk. Pink velvet with “batiked” effect in purple. At either end, printed border of sylized flower forms…

  • Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

    Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

  • Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

    Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

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  • Sidewall, Spanish Geraniums, ca. 1951

    Brightly colored pink and red geraniums growing on vining stems. Printed on white ground.

  • Poncho (Peru), 1940s

    Poncho of wool, tapestry weave, embroidered in striped geometric pattern in shades of red, greys, browns and orange. Fringed on all sides. Tapestry woven bands in same colors as embroidered…

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