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Embossed Wool, ca. 1780
Bright golden yellow woolen cloth, moire and glazed on one side with medium scale watered effect.
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Embossed Wool, ca. 1800
Vermilion woolen cloth, firmly woven, with medium-scale design giving all-over effect of vine leaves, curving stems, curling tendtrils on stamped glazed ground which gives slightly lighter effect. B-D appear to…
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Embossed Wool, 19th century
Thin, loosely woven glazed wool with irregular watered pattern, broad double warp. Selvages. In soft pinkish tan. Said to have been made and used by Quakers.
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Embossed Wool, early 18th century
Louis XIV. Symmetrical design of big bouquets in lobed framing band decorated with various flowers and diapered areas. Various ground diapers suggesting lace patterns. Stamped and glazed on fine white…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long narrow band made from two shorter pieces stitched together. All natural raffia color, in a creamy tone. Three pattern areas of geometric interlacing of alternating bands of textured pile…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Long band composed of three shorter pieces stitched together. All-over embroidery in irregularly interlaced pattern of bands striped in three shades of brown. One selvage present, other long edge cut…
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Border (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Natural, brown, and rust-red strips of plain woven raffia stitched together on long edges, finished with buttonhole embroidery and raffia pompoms.
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Fragment (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Fragment of bark cloth with a center field of alternating black and natural triangles, with borders on two sides of natural color with a single black stripe in the center.
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Overskirt (Democratic Republic of the Congo), late 19th century
Center field of large squares of diamonds and trellis patterns in dark brown and natural pile embroidery. Wide border with interlacing pattern on three sides, edged with buttonhole embroidery in…
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