Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Miser’s Purse, early 19th century

  Miser’s purse worked in bebilla or oya with very small flowers and leaves on green mesh. Two covered rings as slides for purse.

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  Miser’s Purse, early 19th century

  Small netted purse in dark brown silk with cut steel beads in floral design. Looped tassels of cut steel beads at each end; single steel ring.

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  Miser’s Purse (France), 1830–60

  Knitted miser’s purse of tan silk with cut steel beads, with beaded tassel at rounded end and bead loop fringe at flat end. Plain cut steel rings to fasten.

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  Miser’s Purse (France), early 19th century

  Cream colored silk miser’s purse with designs of flowers in cut steel beads. Tassels are made from cut steel loops. Single ring of steel, grooved ornament to fasten purse.

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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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  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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  Weaver’s Thesis Book (France), 1829

  Book, bound in gray cardboard and containing some seventy-six pages of diagrams and descriptions of loom setup for different silks. Missing title page. Dated at top of page four “Janvier…

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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)