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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…

  • Valance (England), ca. 1790

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

  • Valance (Russia), 19th century

    Symmetrical design of horse drawn coach in profile on either side of tripartite domed building. Many incidental human and plant forms. White on white with squared mesh ground. Symmetrical vermicular…

  • Valance (Greece), 18th–19th century

    Wide valance of linen in two parts, joined horizontally by a narrow band of ribbon. Lower half is embroidered with horizontal rows of stylized leaves, almost square in form, alternately…

  • Valance (England), 18th century

    Long valance-shaped fragment of coarse cotton. Design is incomplete, but shows a large floral motif and foliage. Background is blue and the design is reserved in white with blue accents…

  • 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,…

  • Perraje (shawl) (Guatemala), 1900–1955

    Dark blue weft-ribbed shawl with double warps and wefts. Jaspe pattern in close-set bands with geometric and abstract figurative design in white, red, yellow and green. Warps plaited into deep…

  • Textile (Guatemala), early 20th century

    Square with large plaid in shades of red and white with large central panel of close-set zigzags, stripes and small geometrical figures in shades of bright pink, green, lavender, white…

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