Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Table cover edged with insertions of darned net. Insertions in multi-colored silk and metallic thread in floral serpentine.

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Cream-colored linen table cover, with wide border designs worked in polychrome silks of pale green, yellow, pale rose, light blue, dark blue and dark green. Edged with border of dark…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 17th century

  Table cover or “paño de ofrenda” of white hand woven linen embroidered in light brown linen thread. Cutwork squares and borders are worked in white and brown thread. Traditional stylized…

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  Table Cover (Spain), 18th century

  Oblong table cover of hand-woven linen of sheer open weave, embroidered in brown and white silk in cross stitch. Allover pattern arranged in squares of highly stylized floral or lily…

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  Band (Peru), ca. 1000–1200

  Strip of un-dyed cotton cloth with band containing angular scrolls in cloth weave on twined background; guard strips; cord selvage on one side, to which is hand-sewn fringed border.

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  Tassel (Peru), 1000–1200

  Large tassel with long heavy twisted red wool fringes and wool yarn stretched in 1/4″ band of white, red, green, yellow over the top of the core, and a thick…

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  Band (Peru), 11th–12th century

  Long narrow wool band with series of “S” repeats, series of angular scroll repeats, and series of rectangular repeats made up of triangles, in dark green, red, white; framed top…

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  Turban Band, Turban Band, 11th–12th century

  Narrow slit tapestry strip with adjacent diagonal stepped repeats in white, rose reds, browns, golden yellow. One end finished with attached long tassel of brown wool yarns joined at top…

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  Band (Peru), 1000–1200

  Narrow woolen tape with simplified “S” repeats, sometimes turning into scrolls, sometimes with single curve; replaced 1/3 way through with strip of five diamonds with dot in center of each.…

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  Table Cover (Italy), late 16th–early 17th century

  Large reddish-pink table cover edged around all sides with a deeply scalloped lace in a pattern of rosettes.