Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sample Book (USA), 1948

  Contains forty contemporary designs by leading designers. The “Audubon Game Birds” is a photo-lithograph. Includes “Skeletons” by William Justema, “In Line” by Ilonka Karasz.

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  Apron (Spain), 18th century

  Apron for an altar figure in pink satin embroidered in silver thread. With 1949-83-2 forms costume for figure of Infant Jesus.

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  Sample Book (France), ca. 1750

  Folded paper with twelve samples in very bright colors mounted on thin board. Probably used for uniforms. Samples are mounted on paper which reads “LONDRINS SECONDS DE LA GRAVETTE MAY…

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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…

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  Apron (Italy), 1906–10

  Long apron of fine white linen trimmed at sides and bottom with border of needle lace. Gathered at top into narrow band, finished with minute leaves of the same; long…

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  Sample Book, Dessins Nouveauté, 1926–27

  Selection of designs with the strong colors and contrasts of the mid-twenties with examples of large bold design and small figured patterns. Samples are bound in boards. Gilt lettering. The…

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  Apron (France), early 18th century

  Short wide apron of white embroidered in silver thread, rose, violet and white. Design is a large central flower spray of carnation and lily with leaves in silver thread. Corner…

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  Apron (France), early 18th century

  Cream white apron embroidered in colored silks and gold and silver thread. Design shows three offset rows of heavy rose buds with curving stems and leaves. Between each rose bud…

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  Apron (Italy), 17th century

  White linen apron pleated into a narrow band at the top. The sides and lower half of the apron are decorated with squares of cut work with needle-lace fillings alternating…

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  Sample Book, Wallpaper by Denst and Soderlund, 1952–53

  Includes, with color alternates, the following wallpapers: Trees, Twine, Broken Ladder, Checks, Round, The River, Deep Water, Lakatoi, Dandelion, Chameleon, Intracte, Singora Sail, Talisman. The book is setup to show…