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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,…

  • Belt (Russia), late 19th century

    Ribbon belt in silver cloth with black silk strips and figures. Six convex buttons and two-part buckle ornamented in scrolling stem and leaf design and the word “Kavkaz” (Caucasus) in…

  • Sampler (England), 17th century

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

  • Belt, ca. 1930

    Belt patterned with thin stripes in shades of mauve and pink predominantly, also black, yellow, orange, and green. Both ends have warp fringes. Weft ribbing from heavy cerise wefts.

  • Belt, early 20th century

    Belt with one surface of dark blue wool fancy twill with echelons forming large diamonds. The reverse side, white cotton cloth with large diamonds outlined with the dark blue wool…

  • 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…

  • Belt (Poland), 20th century

    Card-woven belt fragment in a bird’s eye pattern in orange, green, and shades of purple. Narrow, striped edges.

  • Belt (Peru), 19th–20th century

    Double-faced belt with continuous stylized design of birds and rosettes widely spaced on band. Blue-green on dark red with opposite on the reverse. Red and white borders with purple edges.…

  • Belt (Guatemala)

    Belt with bands of geometric forms and stylized figures in dark blue, yellow, turquoise, tan and dark red.

  • Belt (Guatemala), 1900–1956

    Belt with bands of geometric forms and stylized human figures and animals in dark blue, white, and grey-green. Weft detail in mercerized cotton in orange, red, and purple. Warp plaits…

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