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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…

  • Bed Hanging (Italy), 18th century

    Long hanging of white linen with drawn work band on all four sides. Bobbin lace insertions in two narrow strips, and bobbin lace edging at ends. Design in drawn work…

  • Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70

    Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center…

  • Bed Hanging (France), 1730–70

    Bed hangings of heavy white silk, embroidered in gold thread, gold foil strips, and colored silks. Each panel is made up of two breadths of fabric seamed down the center…

  • 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…

  • Bed Hanging (India (for European market)), late 17th century

    Large hanging of cotton chintz, lined with pale blue Chinese silk damask (now removed), contemporary with the chintz, and bound on three sides with twill curtain binding. The design is…

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