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  • Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1950

    Holiday huipil made up, front and back, of three strips of undyed cotton cloth banded horizontally at regular intervals with small groups of red and dark blue wool pencil stripes.…

  • Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1952

    Everyday huipil made up, front and back, of three lengths of undyed cotton plain weave, joined with a loose embroidered basket weave in colored cottons. A shallow toothed border in…

  • Hanging (India), 1700–1750

    Hanging with part of one border cut out to shape it to coverlet use. Two large curving sprays with various large, carefully shaded flowers and large curving jagged leaves, and…

  • Hanging (China), 19th century

    Flying phoenix holding curving sprays of tree peony in deep blue cut velvet on a rectangular foundation of tarnished gold. Border of stylized lotus and leaves reserved in gold on…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Undyed cotton huipil with triple warps and triple wefts. Group of narrow stripes up center front and back formed by joined inner selvages. Deep band of brocaded and embroidered decoration…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Warp-faced plain weave with narrow vertical stripes in varying widths in yellow, brown, mauve and red. Shoulder band of close-set repeat of ruffled bird standing on rosette in mauve and…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Undyed cotton cloth ground with triple warps and triple wefts. Deep shoulder decorations of rows of symmetrical trees and turkeys. Rows of smaller birds more widely spaced below. Central stripes…

  • Hanging, Sailors Take Warning, ca. 1928

    Landscape with high sky, in bright pink, blues, green, black silk and off-white chenille wefts, on bright orange warps.

  • Hanging, 18th century

    Large embroidered panel with a field filled with floral boteh forms and a deep border with open flower heads and curving vines and leaves. The field has an eight-pointed star…

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