Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

  Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

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  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

  Broad chevron band embroidered in yellow, orange, and green on black traders’ cotton. Cross-stitch guard border.

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  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

  “Old black traders’ cotton” worked in fine white, orange, yellow, green cross stitch, with geometrical band with stylized floral motives extending from it on lower edge.

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  Breast Plate (Taiwan), 1900–1955

  Diamond-shaped badge with allover continuous lozenge pattern of blue-green, cerise, and purple in weft floats on natural ramie warps. Divided into eight equal parts by rows of close-set traders’ buttons…

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

  Allover pattern of delicate scrolls and flowers.

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  Mittens, 1950–60

  The black and white wool was mixed during spinning,

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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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  Sample Book (USA), ca. 1915

  179 pages (incl. top borders; not. incl. attached lower borders or fabric swatches) Tapestry, landscape, ingrain and oatmeal papers, many tone on tone. Some sidewalls have matching top and bottom…

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  Textile, late 19th–early 20th century

  Narrow length of “ship cloth” with a dark blue ship that has hooked appendages on both ends. At the center of the ship are vertical columns containing a variety of…