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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…

  • Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

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

  • 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…

  • Border (France), 1820

    Same design as 1952-52-19 but leaf cluster, and dentil molding at bottom, are in orange flock. Also one of the flower clusters is yellow and green instead of white and…

  • Trimming, early 20th century

    Trimming with scarlet and white tubular flowers.

  • Hand-woven Sample For Drapery Material (USA), ca. 1948

    Hand-woven sample for drapery material in a checkerboard of horizontal rectangles of orange and grey-green with an overall vertical stripe effect. Double cloth type bound in plain weave. The warp…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Sidewall, Field Flowers, 1952

    All-over pattern of flowers on stems, printed in red, lavender, yellow and blue on white ground.

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