Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Table Mat (Italy), 17th century

  Table mat edged at either side with a wide border showing peacocks.

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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.

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  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…

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  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…

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  Valance (Germany), late 18th–early 19th century

  Valence with scalloped border in floral printed cotton with the edges bound in blue tape. The pattern has natural-size flowers and leaves in violet, blue, green, yellow, red, and brown…

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  Textile (Greece)

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  Handkerchief (Greece)

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  Valance (England), ca. 1790

  Cotton printed with design of vertical stripes with alternating rows of flowering vines or scattered blooms.

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  Table Mat, late 19th century

  Table mat of off-white linen, approximately round with scalloped edges. Embroidered in pale greens, pinks, red and off-white silks with a cipher entwined with two pink roses. Border of small…

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  Table Mat, late 19th century

  White linen tray or table mat of natural-colored linen, scalloped to a shape approximately oval, the edge buttonholed in white silk. multi-colored linen and silk embroidery of purple, yellow and…