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  • Grasscloth (USA), 1890

    Traditional grasscloth in shades of tan.

  • Grasscloth (Japan), 1952–54

    A fine weave of tan or light green tint grasscloth with no printed design.

  • Grasscloth (Japan), 1954

    Finely textured green grasscloth cut into triangles and parallelograms and mounted to show vertical and horizontal pattern of weave alternating. Backed with Japanese paper.

  • Grasscloth (Japan), 1954

    Squares of lavender grasscloth arranged in checkerboard pattern on gold paper turned alternately vertically and horizontally, and backed with fine Japanese paper.

  • Textile (Albania), late 19th–early 20th century

    Horizontal bands of varying widths in heavy white cotton wefts alternating with bands of a much finer open weave with yellow silk wefts. Warp is fine white cotton threads. Three…

  • Textile (Albania), late 19th–early 20th century

    Two lengths of sheer cotton seamed down longest edge. Spaced bands of lozenges and triangles inlaid with heavier cotton thread. Deep borders edged with openwork bands at either end. Twisted…

  • Panel (Albania), 1915

    Panel comprised of several lengths with a sheer ground divided by wide, opaque warp stripes into three panels with white continuous geometric pattern in each with touches of red and…

  • Reproduction, Album: Imperial

    A partly opened box, which appears to be fabricated of leather (exterior) and velvet (interior) is placed on the diagonal and abuts the top and bottom edges. A design, perhaps…

  • Reproduction, Album: Bell Telephone

    The present photograph features a telephone in the streamline style. The narrow rectangular base supports a rotary dial in the center, and on each side, a raised, rounded terminal designed…

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