Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Textile (Albania), late 19th–early 20th century

  Horizontal bands of varying widths in heavy white cotton wefts alternating with bands of a much finer open weave with yellow silk wefts. Warp is fine white cotton threads. Three…

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  Textile (Albania), late 19th–early 20th century

  Two lengths of sheer cotton seamed down longest edge. Spaced bands of lozenges and triangles inlaid with heavier cotton thread. Deep borders edged with openwork bands at either end. Twisted…

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  Panel (Albania), 1915

  Panel comprised of several lengths with a sheer ground divided by wide, opaque warp stripes into three panels with white continuous geometric pattern in each with touches of red and…

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  Wrapper (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Woman’s wrapper with a large-scale design of two columns of squares, each criss-crossed by diagonal lines. Field of small white circles. In white on a deep blue ground.

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  Textile (Nigeria), early 20th century

  Long strip of woven cotton with a simple woven windowpane check; a wide stripe down the center is edged with light blue and has two parallel lines of white ikat.

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  Textile (Nigeria), ca. 1950

  Central medallion shows a man and a crowned woman with lettering above their heads reading OKASA AKA UNI. The medallion is derived from one designed to commemorate the Silver Jubilee…

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  Fragment (Nigeria), mid-20th century

  Reversible square fragment of dark red, with a center band of blue, yellow and white weft floats which form a geometric pattern.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Narrow-woven light-brown cotton with light-blue stripes, embroidered in a highly abstract pattern in gold-colored rayon thread.

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Embroidered sample for a tunic front in light brown and blue striped cotton, pieced together from four narrow strips. The neck opening is indicated, and the front is embroidered with…

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  Fragment (Nigeria), 1961

  Narrow-woven, tan cotton cloth with ivory stripes, embroidered with gray rayon in an asymmetrical scrolling pattern.