Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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…

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  Embroidery (Morocco)

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  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…

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  Sash (Morocco)

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  Cap (Morocco), 1900–1950

  Knitted wool cap with a design of overlapping arches, each with a six-pointed star, in white wool on a rust-red ground. Chevron border at lower edge of alternating red and…

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of striped and stepped patterns, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave…

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of striped, stepped and zig-zag patterns, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain…

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps,…

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  Strip, Kente cloth, mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps,…

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  Sidewall, Alice in Wonderland, 1930

  Children’s paper showing characters from “Alice in Wonderland” and vignettes in bright multicolor, especially yellow. Printed in colors on cream ground. Printed in selvedge: “(thistle) Thomas Strahan Co. Made In…