Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Handkerchief (Philippines), 1800–1850

  Square handkerchief with a border of drawn work and corners decorated in a vine motif. Hemmed edges.

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  Sleeve Panel (Philippines), late 19th–early 20th century

  Straight panels intended for sleeves with a small appliquéd and embroidered floral design. A wide border shows a vine pattern along with a flower and vine pattern of appliqué pina…

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  Sleeve (Philippines), late 19th–early 20th century

  Straight panels intended for sleeves with a small appliquéd and embroidered floral design. A wide border shows a vine pattern along with a flower and vine pattern of appliqué pina…

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  Bodice (Philippines), late 19th–early 20th century

  Simple bodice, front and back in one piece, with a round, low neck. Very sheer, off-white piña cloth with an appliqué design of small flowers outlined in white embroidery. Border…

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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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  Textile (Philippines), 1930

  Length of sheer piña cloth subdivided into vertical bands of pale green, pale pink, pale yellow, and brocaded with delicate stylized serpentining flowering vines in blue, pink, green, yellow, and…

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  Textile (Philippines), 1930

  b) Single row of widely spaced floral sprigs alternating with double row of smaller bud sprigs, brocaded in cotton on sheer undyed piña cloth ground in yellows, oranges, greens, blues.…