Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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  Shawl (Mexico), late 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow shawl of cream colored cotton embroidered at the ends and along the sides in colored silks and paillettes in a leaf and bow-knot design. Scalloped ends of netting…

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  Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

  Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

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  Shawl (Belgium), 19th century

  White lace shawl of fine mesh with detached floral designs and a wide floral border.

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  Shawl (Switzerland), 19th–20th century

  Shawl in fine white cotton printed in polychrome and what appears to be hand painted additions. Border design is a rural scene along a river; corners feature a rustic bridge,…

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  Shawl (India), 1901–25

  Kashmir shawl with a horizontal repeat of flowers flanked by elaborate interlace of decorated arabesques; twining flower sprays fill interstices; scrolling floral guard band with guard strip above and below.…

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  Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

  Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…

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  Shawl

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  Sample Book, Sculptured Wallcovering, 1951

  Samples of wallpaper imitating brick walls, straw matting, stone walls, wood grain, etc., in three-dimensional plastic.