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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  Sample Book Page, Mural Scrolls, 1948

  Mural miniatures of large-scale wall decorations designed especially for silk screen reproduction by the artists Calder, Matisse, Matta and Miro. They are entitled respectively, “A Piece of My Workshop”, “Arbre…

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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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  Sample Book Page (USA), ca. 1910

  Eighty-three samples of machine-made openwork and several examples of hand made lace mounted on boards. They imitate hand-embroidered net, crochet, or needlepoint. All are floral patterns plus a few of…

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  Sample Book Page (probably USA), 1900–1920

  Two hundred and eight samples of machine-made openwork in imitation of bobbin laces and mounted on boards. All are floral patterns plus a few of an early 1920’s geometric style.…

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  Sampler (Morocco), 19th century

  Embroidery sampler showing a large series of the various motifs, including stylized florals and geometric shapes with square motif at centre. Double running and satin stitches in red, green blue…

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  Band (Morocco), 19th century

  Border of natural linen with triangular tab edge, embroidered in red silk with a stylized floral vine growing out of an urn.