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  Printing Block (Germany), mid-18th–mid-19th century

  Allover pattern of delicate scrolls and flowers.

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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…

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  Panel (Thailand), mid-20th century

  Long brilliant cerise panel, handwoven. Fine magenta warp of light weight wild silk and thick, flossy weft of bright orange. silk is from worm of East Thailand which feeds on…

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  Sarong (Thailand), 19th century

  Design showing center area broken up on an all-over diamond-shaped pattern containing stylized floral shapes of seated Buddha. Reclining figures in outlines of damond shapes. Two wide borders, interrupted by…

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  Mittens, 1950–60

  The black and white wool was mixed during spinning,

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  Textile (Thailand), ca. 1963

  Brilliant pink material, double cloth, warp printed in large scale pattern derived from an Indian shawl design, in strong greens, red, and purple. The reverse is a strong magenta, with…

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  Panel (Thailand), 1960–69

  Panel of heavy handwoven silk horizontally striped in red, purple, orange, and orange-brown.

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  Bedcover (India)

  The wide border, contained between two narrow guard borders with pattern of delicate flowering vine, exhibits a design of five types of palm trees – the Palmyra palm, banana, coconut,…

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  Sidewall (France), 1825–50

  Groups of putti centered around pedestal, printed in grisaille and set within frame. Suspended from frames are two crossing rings and green swags. Printed on light orange ground. H# 689

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  Sarong Fragment (Thailand), 1900–1950

  Remains of a long rectangular panel: field replaced with ivory cotton end borders reduced to three sections. each band at each end is decorated by pendant forms–two with a red…