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  • Scarf (France), 19th century

    Three cornered lace scarf. Probably Empire style.

  • Scarf (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Narrow length of batik in brown, dark blue, white, and tan.Tumpal motif (row of isosceles triangles) at ends and large sawat or mironj motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu)…

  • Scarf, 18th–early 19th century

    Long narrow scarf with ends decorated in deep borders that embroidered in red, blue and pale green in a series of geometric designs. Shorts tassels of green, red and blue…

  • 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…

  • Scarf (Near East), 19th century

    Narrow scarf of cream muslin with sides embroidered in silver thread in a design showing detached group of flowers.

  • 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…

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