Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Bookpaper (Germany)

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  Border (France), ca. 1850

  Rinceau of light pink flocked leaves whose stems enclose gilt, buff and brown eye-like shapes. Bead and reel design forms upper border.

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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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  Button

  On card 62

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  Button

  On card 61

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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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  Waistcoat (France), 1750–60

  Gentleman’s ivory silk waistcoat with an all-over painted pattern of small pink flowers on a blue curving vine, with a border of roses on a yellow lattice at the neck…

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  Bed (France), ca. 1935

  Low rectangular base (a) and rectangular matress (b), both covered in brown leather.

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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…