Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Bookpaper, Art Nouveau Pattern, 1966

  Decorative paper design, pattern with motifs derived from Art Nouveau repeated in red, blue, and violet on white background.

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  Darning Sampler (England), 1800

  Handkerchief embroidered with five darning crosses on sheer linen. The initials FR and HW surmonted by two crowns, and the date 1800 are worked in black silk; the crosses in…

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  Textile, Piano Keys, ca. 1966

  Apparel fabric with three alternating stripes of black, hot pink and green and black rectangles.

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  Darning Sampler (England), 1809

  A white rose on a stem with leaves and buds in the center and surrounded by eight crosses of darning stitches. Hemmed on four sides.

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  Darning Sampler (England), 1785

  Darning sampler with five pattern crosses. Hemmed on all four sides. Five holes were cut from the plain weave foundation fabric and the holes darned to simulate five different weaves;…

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  Scarf Sample (France), mid-19th century

  Quarter of a printed scarf in three shades of magenta, yellow, and black. Border contains asters on stripped ground and field is plain magenta.

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  Sampler (Sri Lanka), 1956

  Part of Singalese alphabet above figures of lion and woman carrying pot.

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  Darning Sampler, 1811

  Fourteen darning crosses, inset patch in middle with crowned monogram, two inset corners and two decorative embroidered squares.

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  Darning Sampler, 1816

  Four darning crosses, one with knitting, in the middle crowned monogram. Four decorative squares and each numeral of the date in a embroidered square. Central patch was not removed and…

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  Darning Sampler, 1843

  Eleven squares of pattern darning, one inset corner, an inset patch in the center with crowned initials and date.