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  Embossed Wool

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Small embroidered picture depicting the story of Judith and Holofernes, worked almost entirely in knot stitches on white silk using colored silks and metallic threads. Judith, holding a sword in…

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  Embroidered Picture (England), late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Two depths: in foreground, a woman with child speak to a bearded man; in background, an angel looks over a landscape with trees, a castle, and a tent…

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  Embroidered Picture, late 17th century

  Embroidered picture. Three depths: in foreground, a landscape with flowers, a pond and animals (from left to right: lion, stag, leopard and unicorn); in middle ground, two women, one holding…

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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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  Embroidered Picture (Italy), 16th century

  Panel, almost square, of elaborate embroidery in silk and gold on ground of dark green satin. Central oval with embroidered pictorial representation of the “Adoration of the Christ Child,” 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…