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  • Sample Book (USA), 1948

    Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

  • Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

    Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

  • Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

    Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

  • Skirt Cloth (Indonesia), 1931

    Skirt cloth made of two lengths seamed down long sides of bright green silk cloth with scaled design in gold thread. Design shows long stemmed stylized floral forms extending into…

  • Textile (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Painted and glazed cloth strip depicting scenes from a Hindu religious epic. Shows rows of standing and kneeling figures against stylized cloud bands on undyed cotton ground. Flowering sprays and…

  • Textile (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Painted and glazed cloth strip depicting scenes from a Hindu religious epic. Shows rows of standing and kneeling figures against stylized cloud bands on undyed cotton ground. Flowering sprays and…

  • Textile (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Painted and glazed cloth strip depicting scenes from a Hindu religious epic. Shows rows of standing and kneeling figures against stylized cloud bands on undyed cotton ground. Flowering sprays and…

  • Textile (Indonesia), ca. 1931

    Textile woven with spaced warps and wefts showing geometric motif in pink, purple, green, yellow, and orange on off-white ground. Spaces make plaid pattern.

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1950

    Sarong with horizontal repeat of large-scale curving floral spray (“buketan” motif) surrounded by birds and butterflies in black, red, and blue on undyed ground. Narrow black side borders with blue…

  • Ceremonial Cloth (kamben Geringsing) (Indonesia), 1931

    Textile created in double ikat or ‘geringsing technique’ (within Indonesia, only practiced in the village of Tenganan, East Bali). Shows symetrical scaled design of large half medallions with complex decorative…

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