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  • Apron (Romania), early 20th century

    Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

  • Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

    Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

  • Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

    Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

  • Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

    Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

  • Sampler (Sri Lanka), 1956

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

  • Textile (Suriname), 1963

    Repeating pattern with the coat-of-arms of Suriname and black hands with handcuffs broken surrounded by broken chains on a red background. Pattern at right angles to the warp.

  • Astuccio Ricaricabile Rechargeable Flashlight, ca. 1989

    Green white and red molded plastic housing of flat rectangular form flaring at one end into circular lamp housing; orange rectangular switch with “on/char” molded in surface.

  • RE 5500 Radio, ca. 1985

    Upright black rectangular radio with rounded corners; lower three-quaters of front perforated with circular holes for speaker. Top with seven white, orange, pink, and yellow control buttons and retractable metal…

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