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  • Robe (China), 19th century

    Robe with rounded neckline, diagonal closure across right shoulder, slits at center front and back hem, and horseshoe-shaped sleeve cuffs.Twelve-symbol robe with ultramarine ground with deep wave border of diagonal…

  • Robe (Japan), 1900–1925

    Straight-cut robe with short rectangular hanging sleeves. Dark gray design of small patterned rectangles on a lighter gray ground. White silk lining at upper back.

  • Fragment (Afghanistan), before 1906

    Scaled and blurred medium-scale geometric design in drimson, gold, rust, white, and green on ground in shades of deep blue. two crimson twill selvedges with paired white pencil stripes.

  • Cap (Afghanistan), mid-19th century

    Undyed cotton quilted into narrow ribs, possibly over cording. Cording is over embroidery of coarse satin stitches in orange, black, yellow and green in a pattern of various stylized floral…

  • Cap (Afghanistan), 19th century

    Cap decorated with long ovoids surrounded by stylized borders. Multicolored silks are embroidered using coarse satin stitch in purple, pink, yellow and green. Quilted cords make ridges that give stucture…

  • Robe (Japan), 19th century

    Robe made from narrow widths of cloth woven from elm bark, in tobacco brown with varied stripes of dark indigo blue and white. Dark blue cotton appliqué with white couched-thread…

  • Robe (Japan), 18th century

    Priest’s robe of deep apricot-colored satin brocaded in brilliant flower design in blues, greens, yellow, purple, white, and gilded paper. The technique is known as “kara ori,” a brocading with…

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