Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

  Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

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  Textile (Bolivia), 19th century

  Square made of two lengths seamed down long side. Broad dark brown and rust stripes and brown cream stripes with think stripes of blue and red. Warp-patterned stripes in these…

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  Textile (Bolivia), early 19th century

  Broad dark brown stripes alternating with groups of cream, tan, yellow, pink, blue, and brown pencil-stripes, with central geometrically decorated stripes in same colors, warp-patterned. Narrow bright blue selvages continuous…

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  Textile (Bolivia), 19th century

  Square made of two lengths seamed down long side. Edged on four sides with patterned tubular embroidery. Broad stripes of red and dark brown with thin stripes in white, pink,…

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  Textile (Bolivia), 19th century

  Contained square with thin stripes in two shades of brown with broader stripes at intervals in tans, black, white with narrow geometrically patterned central stripe. Edged on four sides with…

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  Bag (Bolivia), 19th century

  Small square flat bag with remains of woven shoulder straps. Warp rep stripes of various widths in cream, black and shades of brown alternate with warp-patterned stripes in same colors…

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  Textile (Bolivia)

  Broad stripes of dark brown and dark red and dull green with warp-patterned geometrical and animal stripes in these colors, on cream ground. Some type of herringbone embroidery in red…

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  Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

  Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

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  Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

  Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

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  Textile (Thailand), ca. 1960

  Long hadwoven breath, warm burnt-orange, with thick yellow weft and fine magenta warp, giving changeable effect when crumpled. At one end, an inch-wide band in which fine blue weft replaces…