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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  Scarf (France), 19th century

  Three cornered lace scarf. Probably Empire style.

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  Scarf (Indonesia), early 20th century

  Narrow length of batik in brown, dark blue, white, and tan.Tumpal motif (row of isosceles triangles) at ends and large sawat or mironj motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu)…

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  Scarf, 18th–early 19th century

  Long narrow scarf with ends decorated in deep borders that embroidered in red, blue and pale green in a series of geometric designs. Shorts tassels of green, red and blue…

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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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  Scarf (Near East), 19th century

  Narrow scarf of cream muslin with sides embroidered in silver thread in a design showing detached group of flowers.

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  Scarf, late 19th–early 20th century

  Panel of tie-dyed silk, with a dark burgundy rectangle in the center, surrounded by a thin band of yellow, with a burnt crimson border. Thin band of metallic yarn lace…

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  Scarf, 19th–early 20th century

  Scarf of cream-white satin, embroidered in polychrome silk design of large rose clusters of seeds and small sketched flowers in the center. Border of naturalistic vine and flower design. In…

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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.