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Towel End, 18th–19th century
Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in…
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Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century
Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.
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Towel End, 19th century
End crossed by two types of shrine forms (?) alternating in blue, green and pink silk silver thread with touches of brown and cream. Fret border in cream and silver…
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Towel End, 19th century
Broad lower towel end with a border of drawn work with animals confronting initials “M.I.D.” under coronet and with floral and bird frame; symmetrical flower motif on each end. Broad…
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Towel End, 19th century
Towel end with deep border at bottom of three flower heads in drawn work with fine embroidered foliage detail, in white linen thread. Initials “I.A.D.” in symmetrical leaf-framed cartouche above.…
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Towel End, 18th–19th century
Towel end edged at one end with wide border of stylized tulips and birds.
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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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