Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), late 18th–early 19th century

  Vertical-horizontal repeat of large squares broken by small geometric trellis framework and other broad bands of geometric patterning. Reversible “Summer and Winter” weave in dark blue and white.

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  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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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), 1830s

  Section of an overshot coverlet with large squres in broad band framework; various geometrical fillings to all areas. Pattern formed by wool pattern wefts of dark blue and rosy rust…

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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), early 19th century

  Squares with various geometric fillings formed by dark blue pattern wefts on a cloth ground of undyed cotton. Reversible.

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  Coverlet Fragment (USA)

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  Coverlet Fragment (USA), early 19th century

  Large scale windowpane check in dark blue, crossings accented with white double-crosses, rust-red squares. In undyed cotton, dark blue and deep rust wool.