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Letter Case, 18th century
Letter case of blue silk taffeta embroidered with straw in a symmetrical floral design. Fiber is couched flat, twisted and braided. Worked as a single panel; lined with tan silk.
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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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Border (France), 1820
Same design as 1952-52-19 but leaf cluster, and dentil molding at bottom, are in orange flock. Also one of the flower clusters is yellow and green instead of white and…
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Trimming, early 20th century
Trimming with scarlet and white tubular flowers.
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Hand-woven Sample For Drapery Material (USA), ca. 1948
Hand-woven sample for drapery material in a checkerboard of horizontal rectangles of orange and grey-green with an overall vertical stripe effect. Double cloth type bound in plain weave. The warp…
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Printing Block (India), 1952–53
Small block for printing embroidery designs. Carved of hard wood and used to print Chickan embroidery patterns. Shows a design of two roosters in profile with plant forms in between.
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