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  • Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

    Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

  • Coverlet (India (for European market)), late 17th century

    The coverlet is comprised of three breadths of fine undyed cotton plain weave, with very fine silk chain-stitch embroidery in brown, violet, two shades of blue, yellow and two shades…

  • Band (Morocco), 18th century

    Natural color linen worked in red silk with the design reserved in the linen outlined in green silk. Details of decoration in green silk. Main design consists of a fountain…

  • Sample (USA), 1945–1950

    Sample of natural linen printed with a red and black linear design with rows of intersecting diamond shapes connected with vertical and horizontal lines.

  • 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…

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