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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…

  • Sash (France), late 18th century

    Sash of sky-blue ribbon patterned with a broad central band with a symmetrical repeat of stylized heart and arabesque forms in blue, coral, and cream warp floats. Hanging decorations are…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sash (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Narrow stripes of green and yellow and dark blue with white ikat patterning on red ground. Short plaited warp fringe at each end.

  • Sash (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Tightly-woven dark red plain weave cloth with double warps and triple wefts. Four wide bands of geometical patterning at each end in deep yellow, green, and blue. Deep twisted warp…

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