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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  Border (France), 1825

  Black arcade with pink oak leaves in center. Between arches is a stylized black and white floral pattern that rises above it. Lower border of black and white diamonds and…

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  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…

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  Border (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Small squares making up a border with small-scale triangular pendants. Modes: brides picotées, portes.

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  Frieze And Border (France), 1820–35

  Suspended in arched framework with pendants, orange flowers hanging from brown foliage.

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  Sample Book, Wallpapers of Merit, Book No. 3, 1917

  Consists of 95 sidewalls and 73 borders. Gold embossed title on black paper cover. Papers consist of imitations of textures and woods, floral borders, stripes, large over-all patterns