Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Printing Block (Germany), mid-18th–mid-19th century

  Allover pattern of delicate scrolls and flowers.

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

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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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  Wrapper (Nigeria), 1950s

  Wrapper with a grid of large Xs on a field of small circles. Design created through tied- and stitched-resist patterning methods, in white on a deep blue ground.

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  Mittens, 1950–60

  The black and white wool was mixed during spinning,

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), mid- 20th century

  Wrapper with a checkerboard of rectangles separated by rows of dots. Each rectangle is filled alternately with a floral pattern or rows of small triangles. Design reserved in white on…

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  Bedcover (India)

  The wide border, contained between two narrow guard borders with pattern of delicate flowering vine, exhibits a design of five types of palm trees – the Palmyra palm, banana, coconut,…

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  Wrapper (Ethiopia), 1969

  Two panels of sheer white cotton seamed together with a 6 3/4 inch border at both end. Bands and borders are a geometric pattern of triangles, diamonds and chevrons in…

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  Wrapper (Ethiopia), ca. 1969

  Long panel of sheer white cotton with a 6 3/4 inch border at both ends and two woven bands across the middle of the panel. Bands and borders are a…

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  Sidewall (France), 1825–50

  Groups of putti centered around pedestal, printed in grisaille and set within frame. Suspended from frames are two crossing rings and green swags. Printed on light orange ground. H# 689