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  • Coverlet (India (for European market)), late 17th century

    The coverlet is comprised of three breadths of fine undyed cotton plain weave, with very fine silk chain-stitch embroidery in brown, violet, two shades of blue, yellow and two shades…

  • Panel (Algeria), 18th–19th century

    Small hanging or shawl of fine, loosely woven linen, embroidered in silk in blue, violet, red, olive green, pink and white. Design symmetrically arranged, of stylized plants with spiky, angular…

  • Sample (USA), 1945–1950

    Sample of natural linen printed with a red and black linear design with rows of intersecting diamond shapes connected with vertical and horizontal lines.

  • Textile, late 18th–early 19th century

    Red ground with a design in black on reserve white. Hexagonal medallion frames figure of a woman with buckets; below, in flower wreath, a pair of boys lying more or…

  • Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

    Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

  • Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

    Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

  • Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

    Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

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