Search Demo: Museum Collection

Explore ElasticPress' search and faceting capabilities with the catalog of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

You can also get more detail on specific features by clicking the ElasticPress logos () located around the page.

  • Shawl Fragment (India), 1901–25

    Symmetrical horizontal repeat of alternative variants of floral motif in lobed medallion framed in decorated arabesques; floral guard band below with decorated guard stripe. In blue-ish pinks, purples, turquoise, yellow,…

  • Shawl Fragment (India), 1901–25

    Kashmir shawl fragment. Elaborate flowerheads on scrolling stems with fine small leaves, buds, and small flowers; scrolling floral guard border with decorated guard strips. In yellows, orange, vermillion, cerise pinks,…

  • Shawl Fragment (India), 1901–25

    Kashmir shawl fragment. Horizontal repeats of symmetrical vase and flowers flanked by large elaborate interlace of decorated arabesques; twining flowering sprays fill interstices; scrolling floral guard band at bottom with…

  • Valance (Germany), late 18th–early 19th century

    Valence with scalloped border in floral printed cotton with the edges bound in blue tape. The pattern has natural-size flowers and leaves in violet, blue, green, yellow, red, and brown…

  • Valance (England), ca. 1790

    Cotton printed with design of vertical stripes with alternating rows of flowering vines or scattered blooms.

  • Shawl Fragment, 1800–1850

    Tan ground of fine cotton twill with design of continuous scrolling sprays of sunflower-like flowers and toothed leaves in green and white silk cloth binding. Guard strips at bottom with…

  • Valance (Russia), 19th century

    Symmetrical design of horse drawn coach in profile on either side of tripartite domed building. Many incidental human and plant forms. White on white with squared mesh ground. Symmetrical vermicular…

  • Shawl Fragment (Russia), 19th century

    Very brightly colored flowers of various kinds including a rose in a curving spray on a white ground. Very fine wool in a superlative use of tapestry technique including interlocking…

  • Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

    Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

Object Type