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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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Panel (Thailand), 1960–69

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

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