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  • Bed Hanging (Italy), 18th century

    Long hanging of white linen with drawn work band on all four sides. Bobbin lace insertions in two narrow strips, and bobbin lace edging at ends. Design in drawn work…

  • Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70

    Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center…

  • Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70

    Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center…

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

    Large hanging of cotton chintz, lined with pale blue Chinese silk damask (now removed), contemporary with the chintz, and bound on three sides with twill curtain binding. The design is…

  • Bed Hanging (Greece), 18th–19th century

    Three panels of heavy unbleached linen tabby sewn together and embroidered in red silk in typical Naxian large-scale pattern of 4-pointed stars filled in with long diamond or leaf shapes…

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

    Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

    Broad chevron band embroidered in yellow, orange, and green on black traders’ cotton. Cross-stitch guard border.

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

    “Old black traders’ cotton” worked in fine white, orange, yellow, green cross stitch, with geometrical band with stylized floral motives extending from it on lower edge.

  • Breast Plate (Taiwan), 1900–1955

    Diamond-shaped badge with allover continuous lozenge pattern of blue-green, cerise, and purple in weft floats on natural ramie warps. Divided into eight equal parts by rows of close-set traders’ buttons…

  • Bedcover (India), 17th century

    Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback…

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