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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…

  • 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…

  • Coverlet (Malta), 17th century

    Vertical rectangle with field filled with medium-scale repeat of extremely stylized and angular flower and vase in trellis framework of diamonds with interlocking corners; wide border of smaller scale diamond…

  • 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…

  • Printing Block (India), 1952–53

    Small block for printing embroidery designs. Carved of hard wood and used to print Chickan embroidery patterns. Shows a design of two roosters in profile with plant forms in between.

  • Bed Hanging (Greece), 18th–19th century

    Three panels of heavy unbleached linen tabby sewn together and embroidered in red silk in typical Naxian large-scale pattern of 4-pointed stars filled in with long diamond or leaf shapes…

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