Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Sampler (USA), 1827

  Sampler embroidered in red, black and blue on a white ground, with the alphabet and inscription Susanna Meck 1827 at the top, and many small detached motifs including animals, birds,…

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  Sampler (England), 17th century

  Thirteen cross borders in cutwork with needlepoint stitches and embroidery in satin and curled stitches.

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  Sampler (Morocco), 18th–19th century

  Square of undyed cotton partially filled with sections of borders and designs, some suggestive of Renaissance symmetrical stylized plant borders and some fantastic geometrical symmetrial floral repeats. In faded multicolored…

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  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), early 20th century

  Narrow geometrical border embroidered in red, white, yellow, orange, and green ramie cross-stitch on old black traders’ cotton

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  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

  Broad chevron band embroidered in yellow, orange, and green on black traders’ cotton. Cross-stitch guard border.

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  Embroidered Band (Taiwan), 19th–mid-20th century

  “Old black traders’ cotton” worked in fine white, orange, yellow, green cross stitch, with geometrical band with stylized floral motives extending from it on lower edge.

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  Breast Plate (Taiwan), 1900–1955

  Diamond-shaped badge with allover continuous lozenge pattern of blue-green, cerise, and purple in weft floats on natural ramie warps. Divided into eight equal parts by rows of close-set traders’ buttons…

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  Bedcover (India), 17th century

  Coverlet with a deep red vertical central panel with a large crowned eagle in center, filling of foliage and hippocamps (horses of the sea). Warriors on foot and on horseback…

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  Bedcover (Spain), 18th century

  Large bedcover of cream-colored linen embroidered in light yellow, yellow-green, blue, rose and white silk. The design is laid out in a central panel with a narrow border at the…

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  Bedcover (Japan), early 19th century

  Bedcover made from five breadths of narrow fabric. Dark blue with soft shades of rose, yellow-orange, pale green and gray-violet. Design shows a large bird with widely-spread wings, long tail…