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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  Bookpaper (Germany)

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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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  Border (France), ca. 1850

  Rinceau of light pink flocked leaves whose stems enclose gilt, buff and brown eye-like shapes. Bead and reel design forms upper border.

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  Button

  On card 62

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  Button

  On card 61

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  Waistcoat (France), 1750–60

  Gentleman’s ivory silk waistcoat with an all-over painted pattern of small pink flowers on a blue curving vine, with a border of roses on a yellow lattice at the neck…

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  Bed (France), ca. 1935

  Low rectangular base (a) and rectangular matress (b), both covered in brown leather.

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  Palampore (India), early 18th century

  Center of painted cotton; lined with dark green glazed linen, and with wide border of green silk. Center made of two breadths of cotton, one of 15 inches, one of…