Search Demo: Museum Collection

• 

  Embossed Wool

• 

  Embossed Wool, ca. 1780

  Bright golden yellow woolen cloth, moire and glazed on one side with medium scale watered effect.

• 

  Embossed Wool, ca. 1800

  Vermilion woolen cloth, firmly woven, with medium-scale design giving all-over effect of vine leaves, curving stems, curling tendtrils on stamped glazed ground which gives slightly lighter effect. B-D appear to…

• 

  Embossed Wool, 19th century

  Thin, loosely woven glazed wool with irregular watered pattern, broad double warp. Selvages. In soft pinkish tan. Said to have been made and used by Quakers.

• 

  Embossed Wool, early 18th century

  Louis XIV. Symmetrical design of big bouquets in lobed framing band decorated with various flowers and diapered areas. Various ground diapers suggesting lace patterns. Stamped and glazed on fine white…

• 

  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

  Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

• 

  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

  Broad chevron band embroidered in yellow, orange, and green on black traders’ cotton. Cross-stitch guard border.

• 

  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

  “Old black traders’ cotton” worked in fine white, orange, yellow, green cross stitch, with geometrical band with stylized floral motives extending from it on lower edge.

• 

  Breast Plate (Taiwan), 1900–1955

  Diamond-shaped badge with allover continuous lozenge pattern of blue-green, cerise, and purple in weft floats on natural ramie warps. Divided into eight equal parts by rows of close-set traders’ buttons…

• 

  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…