Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Apron (Romania), early 20th century

  Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

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  Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

  Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

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  Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

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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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  Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

  Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

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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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  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…

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  Valance (France), 1783–89

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  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…