Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Carpet Fragment (England), early 20th century

  Carpet fragment with a medium-scale allover flower and leaf repeat in delft blue, light blue and pale coral. One plain selvage with black cotton warps.

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  Panel (USA), ca. 1880

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  Textile (India), early 20th century

  Symmetrical horizontal repeat of vase with flowers (two alternating variants) in decorated arabesque framework with filling sprays of twining stems, leaves and flowers. Floral guard band at bottom within decorated…

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  Tile (England), 1898–1907

  Square tile or buff clay with grog added. Streaky brilliant peacock-blue colored glaze, crackled. Impressed mark: “Dm 98”

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  Tile (England), 1888–98

  Square tile of reddish buff clay with grog added. Brilliant greenish blue colored glaze, crazed. Stamped with double wing on back, surrounded by “W. De Morgan 2 Co Sand’s End…

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  Button

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  Adinkra Ceremonial Wrapper (Ghana), mid-20th century

  Woman’s cotton wrapper, dyed dark brown and printed with hand-carved stamps in a dark glossy ink. The cloth is divided into a grid of four by seven squares; each square…

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  Wrapper (Ghana), 20th century

  Cotton, dyed dark brown and block-printed in a dark glossy substance, in geometric patterns in groups of three rows, forming rectangles. The motifs are carved on calabashes then stamped on…

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  Textile (Ghana), ca. 1960

  Sample of tied- and stitched-resist patterns, indigo-dyed and partially opened.

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  Strip (Ghana), mid- 20th century

  Narrow woven strip with bands of pattern, including stair-steps, interlocking squares, and zig-zags, in black, blue, green, yellow/orange, and dark red. Patterns are formed by alternating warp-faced plain weave with…