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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…

  • Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1950

    Holiday huipil made up, front and back, of three strips of undyed cotton cloth banded horizontally at regular intervals with small groups of red and dark blue wool pencil stripes.…

  • Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1952

    Everyday huipil made up, front and back, of three lengths of undyed cotton plain weave, joined with a loose embroidered basket weave in colored cottons. A shallow toothed border in…

  • 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.…

  • Woman’s Headdress (Greece), late 18th–early 19th century

    Long cream-colored panel with wide embroidered border at each end and long warp fringe. Border shows two rows of triangles separated by wide zigzags of drawn work in silk and…

  • Textile (Greece), 18th century

    Coarse blue linen tabby embroidered with saw-tooth bands of white separating diagonal rows of red and yellow running stitch which reserve rows of backward L-shaped forms.

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