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  • Apron (Romania), early 20th century

    Flat panel of coarse stiff wool, woven in a plaid design of red, blue and green. Horizontal bands embroidered in silver (now tarnished) with additional areas in colored wools. Stylized…

  • Textile (Romania), 18th–19th century

    Rectangle of plaid with broad central vertical blue band and widely spaced horizontal and vertical stripes in green, yellow, blue, white, on a dark red ground. Horizontal band near bottom…

  • Band (Romania), 18th–19th century

    Rectangular piece for a cap with a double row of close-set medium scale floriated crosses in green, yellow, blue, tan and black silks with alternating silver or black centers on…

  • Edging (France), 19th century

    Lace band with floss flowers sewn at intervals. Loosely worked undyed silk bobbin lace with a scalloped edge dotted with single flowers and a few small knotted tassels of polychrome…

  • 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…

  • Cap Fragment (Romania), 19th century

    Small-scale allover design of diamonds framed within interlocking S-scroll borders in black and yellow silk with accents of dark red wool, white cotton, and turquoise blue silk. Incomplete border section…

  • Band (Morocco), 18th century

    Natural color linen worked in red silk with the design reserved in the linen outlined in green silk. Details of decoration in green silk. Main design consists of a fountain…

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