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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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Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1950
Holiday huipil made up, front and back, of three strips of undyed cotton cloth banded horizontally at regular intervals with small groups of red and dark blue wool pencil stripes.…
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Huipil (Mexico), 1900–1952
Everyday huipil made up, front and back, of three lengths of undyed cotton plain weave, joined with a loose embroidered basket weave in colored cottons. A shallow toothed border in…
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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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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Undyed cotton huipil with triple warps and triple wefts. Group of narrow stripes up center front and back formed by joined inner selvages. Deep band of brocaded and embroidered decoration…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Warp-faced plain weave with narrow vertical stripes in varying widths in yellow, brown, mauve and red. Shoulder band of close-set repeat of ruffled bird standing on rosette in mauve and…
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Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950
Undyed cotton cloth ground with triple warps and triple wefts. Deep shoulder decorations of rows of symmetrical trees and turkeys. Rows of smaller birds more widely spaced below. Central stripes…
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Sampler (Austria), late 18th–early 19th century
Long narrow sampler of knitting in fine linen, showing twenty-five sections of different stitches, narrow end designs.
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