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  • Beaker (Sweden), 1760

    Tall flaring body with punched lambrequin motif above engraved shell and scroll band and initials E.H.S. Wavy relief band at top and bottom. Flaring gadrooned foot, with traces of gilding.…

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

    Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

    Broad chevron band embroidered in yellow, orange, and green on black traders’ cotton. Cross-stitch guard border.

  • Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

    “Old black traders’ cotton” worked in fine white, orange, yellow, green cross stitch, with geometrical band with stylized floral motives extending from it on lower edge.

  • Breast Plate (Taiwan), 1900–1955

    Diamond-shaped badge with allover continuous lozenge pattern of blue-green, cerise, and purple in weft floats on natural ramie warps. Divided into eight equal parts by rows of close-set traders’ buttons…

  • Beaker (Sweden), ca. 1946

    Straight, flaring body on flaring foot. Royal blue tone on edge and inside bottom, fading out toward middle. Encased decoration of gray semicircles, bell flowers and dots.

  • 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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