Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  • Woman’s Mantle (chyrpy) (Turkmenistan), 19th century

    Woman’s white cotton chyrpy embroidered with silk and wool felt appliqué in red, green, yellow, blue and magenta. Vertical stalks of highly stylized tulips rise from the hem, and a…

  • Sampler (Sri Lanka), 1956

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

  • Adire Wrapper (Gambia), ca. 1990

    Deep indigo-blue fabric with vertical stripes of dots and dashes in light blue, created by machine-stitched resist. Foundation fabric has a geometric woven damask pattern.

  • Wrapper (Gambia), ca. 1990

    Length of cotton dyed deep indigo blue with horizontal bands of smooth and crimped line, reserved in pale blue by stitched resist technique.

  • Carpet (Turkmenistan), 2007

    Dark brown border with minor border of red and yellow waves. Center field has off-white background with concentric circles in multicolor. Interstices of circles are filled with multicolor triangles.

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