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  • Nightcap (France), 18th century

    Tall man’s cap of brilliant yellow silk embroidered with floral vines in silver metallic yarns. Lower edge turns up in the bicorne style.

  • Nightcap (France), ca. 1730

    Man’s nightcap with a rounded crown and turned-up brim. The fabric has a green silk satin ground with a woven pattern of flowers and arabesques in cream silk. The brim…

  • Nightcap (France), 18th century

    Man’s nightcap made of four panels of undyed ribbed cotton with fairly deep cuff, piped along four seams and top of cuff with blue silk; topped with silk and metallic…

  • Nightcap, 18th century

    Tall man’s nightcap with deep bicorne cuff in salmon-colored ribbed silk, brocaded with a symmetrical floral design in silver metallic yarns and blue, green, yellow, pink, and white silks.

  • Nightcap, 18th century

    Man’s cap of yellow silk taffeta made up of four panels with a deep turn-up cuff. Embroidered with symmetrical chinoiserie floral sprays in satin stitch in blue ombre silk, and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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