Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  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.

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  Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

  Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

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  Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

  Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

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  Adinkra Ceremonial Wrapper (Ghana), mid-20th century

  Woman’s cotton wrapper, dyed dark brown and printed with hand-carved stamps in a dark glossy ink. The cloth is divided into a grid of four by seven squares; each square…

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  Wrapper (Ghana), 20th century

  Cotton, dyed dark brown and block-printed in a dark glossy substance, in geometric patterns in groups of three rows, forming rectangles. The motifs are carved on calabashes then stamped on…

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  Textile (Ghana), ca. 1960

  Sample of tied- and stitched-resist patterns, indigo-dyed and partially opened.

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern, including stair-steps, interlocking squares, and zig-zags, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with…

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps,…

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps,…

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of striped and stepped patterns, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave…