Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Envelope, Miss Holloway, late 19th–early 20th century

  Square cream envelope with embossed borders. There is a very wide border of floral branches that spring from the border’s center with in a frame. The center of the bordered…

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  Towel End, 18th–19th century

  Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in…

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  Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

  Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

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  Towel End, 19th century

  End crossed by two types of shrine forms (?) alternating in blue, green and pink silk silver thread with touches of brown and cream. Fret border in cream and silver…

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  Printing Block

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  Printing Block

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  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.

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  Towel End, 19th century

  Broad lower towel end with a border of drawn work with animals confronting initials “M.I.D.” under coronet and with floral and bird frame; symmetrical flower motif on each end. Broad…

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  Towel End, 19th century

  Towel end with deep border at bottom of three flower heads in drawn work with fine embroidered foliage detail, in white linen thread. Initials “I.A.D.” in symmetrical leaf-framed cartouche above.…

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  Printing Block (Germany), mid-18th–mid-19th century

  Allover geometric pattern made by squares and diagonals.