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  • Sampler (USA), 1827

    Sampler embroidered in red, black and blue on a white ground, with the alphabet and inscription Susanna Meck 1827 at the top, and many small detached motifs including animals, birds,…

  • Sampler (England), 17th century

    Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

  • Bowl (Iran), 14th century

    Bulbous bowl with wide lip, under which is a decorative band with text. Repeating pomegranate pattern on body.

  • Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

    Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), ca. 1949

    Handwoven partition material of open-weave plaid in natural tones with solid and open-weave areas. The bleached and unbleached hemp-like warps alternate with very finely plied cotton threads of brown, yellow…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Hand-woven sample in a checkerboard of tan and silver rectangles. The warp is of white cotton, used in pairs. One weft set is aluminum strips and the other tan paper…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample with a subtle horizontal stripe of black and white mixed yarns. The warp is of off-white silk; the weft alternates two sheds of off-white plied silk yarns with…

  • Hand-woven Sample (USA), before 1953

    Handwoven sample with vertical bands of tweed textures. The warp is of burgundy, bright pink, light pink, and light gray-green yarns; the weft of heavy dark brown hemp.

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