Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Embroidery

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  Embroidery

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  Woman’s Mantle (chyrpy) (Turkmenistan), 19th century

  Woman’s white cotton chyrpy embroidered with silk and wool felt appliqué in red, green, yellow, blue and magenta. Vertical stalks of highly stylized tulips rise from the hem, and a…

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  Ribbon (USA)

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  Embroidery, late 18th century

  Cream-colored cotton (possibly from a curtain or skirt) with detached floral motives worked in chain stitch. Flowers small garden varieties in clusters 3″ to 4″ long; arranged in staggered rows.…

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  Embroidery (Greece), late 19th century

  Horizonal panel with deep border embroidered in row of large flowering wreaths in blues, blue-greens, shades of rust; touches of white, black and yellow whithin the guard strips; similar wreath…

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  Ribbon (France), 18th century

  Narrow ribbon in pinks and greenin a repeated, small-scale striped pattern. Elaborate tassels at either end.

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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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  Ribbon (France), 1750–1800

  Long strip, widening toward the bottom, of openwork effect formed by silk-wound linen strands bound at intervals by silk warps. Serpentine of green ribbon tied to form small scallops applied…