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  • 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…

  • Printing Block (India), 1952–53

    Small block for printing embroidery designs. Carved of hard wood and used to print Chickan embroidery patterns. Shows a design of two roosters in profile with plant forms in between.

  • 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.

  • Embossed Wool, early 18th century

    Louis XIV. Symmetrical design of big bouquets in lobed framing band decorated with various flowers and diapered areas. Various ground diapers suggesting lace patterns. Stamped and glazed on fine white…

  • Man’s Shirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Long straight shirt made of two lengths of heavy white cotton with thin red stripes (two warps, three wefts). Very short narrow sleeves of red cloth with two wide bands…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…

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