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  • Band (Greece), 17th century

    Fragment of border, cream linen ground embroidered in red, green, white and black silk. Highly stylized plant forms with birds and stags confronted. Narrow guard borders.

  • Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

    Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

  • Purse (Greece), 1920s

    Flat square purse with top snap opening and gilded metal chain for carrying, beige satin lining and fittings. Made from the sleeve of a peasant woman’s blouse of the 19th…

  • 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…

  • Band (Greece), 18th–19th century

    Linen band embroidered with red silk with a repeating alternation of two patterns. One is a mermaid and the other a bird and cornucopia, each flipped both vertically and horizontally.…

  • 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.

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