Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Apron (Romania), early 20th century

  Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

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  Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

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  Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

  Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

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  Bedcover (India), 17th century

  Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback…

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  Bedcover (Spain), 18th century

  Large bedcover of cream-colored linen embroidered in light yellow, yellow-green, blue, rose and white silk. The design is laid out in a central panel with a narrow border at the…

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  Bedcover (Japan), early 19th century

  Bedcover made from five breadths of narrow fabric. Dark blue with soft shades of rose, yellow-orange, pale green and gray-violet. Design shows a large bird with widely-spread wings, long tail…

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  Bedcover (USA), ca. 1850

  White quilted bedcover in an allover rosette design. In the center, a large circular pattern of a rayed sun. At four points around the circle are four American eagles with…

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  Bedcover (USA), ca. 1850