Search Demo: Museum Collection

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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 Fragment (Indonesia), 19th century

  Red silk brocaded cloth (kain songket) with all-over geometric pattern of stars and rosettes in gold brocade, with wide panel at one end showing the “tumpal” motif (row of isosceles…

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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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  Sash (Bhutan)

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  Shirt (possibly Bhutan), early 20th century

  Red cotton shirt with applique bands of black, pink and gray at ends of each sleeve. Back and front, from wrist to wrist, decorated with six rows of glass beads…

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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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  Coat (Bhutan), ca. 1962

  Woven cotton coat with design of thick vertical stripes in brick red with smaller stripes in mustard, blue and green. Brocaded vertical bands of geometric motifs in mustard. Collar made…

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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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  Sarong Fragment (Indonesia), 19th century

  Portion of a sarong with pattern of birds and flowers in pale red and two shades of blue on yellow ochre ground in the the body or ‘badan’. Somewhat similar…